Daily Objectives

                                                        CHICAGO ROCKS! Geology in the City
                                                                                 ESCI 109
                                                                              Spring 2010

Daily Objectives #30 (April 29, 2010) J. Hemzacek and L. Sanders

By the end of today's class, you should be able to do the following:

w Demonstrate that you can use the final exam calendar in the NEIU schedule book to determine the time and date of a final exam.

w Explain what it means to say that the Chicago River "flows backward".

w Tell the "Big Picture" story of the geology of the Chicago area: Write a series of steps in chronological order that describe the processes leading to the Chicago geology and landscape we see today.

w Tell what was happening, geologicially, in the Chicago area *before* glaciers formed.

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