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Geophysical B Final Exam Review
Unit 6 Climate and Climate Change:
1. What is climate? How is this different from weather?
2. What are the three major factors that affect the climate of an area?
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5. What do scientists use the four terms listed above for?
6. List two potential causes of climate change (either cooling or warming).
7. How are human actions contributing to the warming trend we are seeing?
8. The picture to the right show Michigan’s Great Lakes. How were they
formed? (include what existed here prior to the Great Lakes)
Unit 7 Energy Resources and Electricity:
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11. Which element is most commonly used in the process from question #10?
12. Fill in the table below
Renewable or
Nonrenewable
Wind
Biomass
Natural Gas
Nuclear
Coal
Geothermal
Hydropower
Primary or
secondary
energy source?
One positive Aspect
One Negative Aspect
Solar
Petroleum (Oil)
13. How does a secondary energy resource differ from a primary energy resource? Give an example of each.
Unit 8 Rocks and Plate Tectonics:
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WEDCC
Heat and
Pressure
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Melting and cooling
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20. Write a sentence that shows the relationship between the following terms and people: Alfred Wegner, Pangaea and
continental drift.
21. What does the Theory of Plate Tectonics tell us? What provided proof of this theory?
22. The feature labeled A on the diagram to the right represents
the ____________. At the center of this feature is a
_____________________ where ________________ rises and
cools to form new ocean floor.
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A
B
23. On the diagram to the right label younger/thinner rock and
older/thicker rock.
24. Point B on the diagram represents a __________________ which is created by the subduction of an oceanic plate.
What is subduction? What happens to seafloor crust at these trenches?
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Boundary Type
Arrows to show movement
of plates
Plates move together
Type of stress
Features created
Continental-continental:
Oceanic-continental:
subduction creates trenches
and volcanic mountains
Oceanic-oceanic:
Oceanic-oceanic:
Divergent
Continental-continental:
Shearing
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36. Deformation of earth’s crust occurs from _____________________ adjustments. When something is added to
Earth’s crust it sinks ______________ into the mantle and when that additional weight it lifted/removed from the crust
is will lift back __________.
Unit 9: Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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(amount of surface destruction)
(amount of energy released)
38. On the diagram to the right, label the focus and the epicenter of an earthquake.
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47. Describe how scientists find the epicenter of an EQ why it is necessary to have information from three locations. Use
vocabulary in your response.
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Wave
Alternate
Names
Speed
Motion
1st to arrive, travels through
solids and liquids, body wave
(under Earth’s surface)
Fastest
Medium
Surface
(Love/Rayleigh)
Transverse-up and
down or side to side
under E. Surface
Love-side to side
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Extra Fact
Rayleigh-elliptical,
rolling motion
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Magma that is low viscosity, low gas content and is associated
with quiet eruptions
Magma that is high viscosity, high gas content and is
associated with explosive eruptions
50. What two common locations in the U.S are located near/over hotspots?
51. How is the creation of a volcano at a hotspot different than at a subduction zone or mid-ocean ridge?
52. Fill in the chart below
Volcano Type
Lava type
Type of Eruption
Location/Example
Shape/Height and
how they form
Hawaiian Islands
Steep volcano
formed by layers of
ash and lava
Composite Cone
Felsic
Cerro Negro in
Nicaragua
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Unit 10: Hydrology
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k. imaginary line separating
two watersheds
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60. Label the following on the diagram below: zone of saturation, zone of aeration (unsaturated zone), water table and
well.
61. Based on the diagram, does the position of the water table remain
constant? What forms when Earth’s surface dips below the water
table?
62. Label all arrows on the water cycle diagram below:
63. Below sketch the evolution of a river from young to mature to old and fill in the characteristics below:
Young
Overall Shape:
Speed:
Shape of Bed:
Features:
Mature
Old
64. What are some ways we can prevent flooding of a river?
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Unit 11: Earth’s History
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f. fossil of organisms that lived for a short geologic time
span over a wide area
77. What is the difference between absolute and relative dating? Give an example of each.
78. For each statement write R for relative age and A for absolute age
The rock is said to be 3 million years old _________
The law of crosscutting relationships says that any fault is younger than the rock is cuts through _________
Carbon dating _____
The law of superposition says that older rocks lie at the bottom of a rock column ______
78. Based on the graph below, what is the half-life of Cesium?
79. Now that you have determined the half-life, define/describe
what it is.
80. Fossils such as the Petoskey stone are found in what type of
rock- Igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic? Why not in the other
two?
81. Look at the diagram below. Which era is by far the longest?
82. Label each era below (Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic) with the main life forms that thrived during
that time, if there were any, and whether or not there was a major event/mass extinction that occurred.
Precambrian
83. Use the diagram to the right to name the geologic units of time
from the largest to the smallest (Periods, Eras, Epochs)
84. The cenozoic era is the only one that is broken into epochs. Why is
this?
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