GEOG 1113: Landforms
Spring 2013
I. Be able to identify the following terms:
1. Biogeography
2. Zoogeography
3. Phytogeography
4. Ecosystem
5. Community
6. Niche
7. Habitat
8. Competitive exclusion principle
9. Symbiotic relationship
10. Equatorial and Tropical Rain Forest
11. Tropical deciduous forest and scrub
12. Coltan
13. Midlatitude deciduous forest
14. Mediterranean woodland and scrub forest
15. Xeric
16. Mesic
17. Midlatitude coniferous forest
18. Tar (oil) sands
19. Tropical savanna
20. Midlantitude grassland
21. Deserts
22. Alpine tundra
23. Arctic tundra
24. Phreatophytes
25. Ephemerals
26. Succulents
27. Halophytes
28. Biomes
29. Ubac slope
30. Adret slope
31. Tree line
32. Vertical zonation
33. Plant succession
34. Soil
35. Humus
36. Capillary action
37. Surface tension
38. Field capacity
39. Soil-water budget
40. Evapotranspiration
41. Wilting point
42. Pedogenic process
Exam 1 Study Guide
43. Regolith
44. Bioturbation
45. Relief
46. Soil horizon
47. Soil science
48. residual parent material
49. transported parent material
50. seismic waves
51. asthenosphere
52. magnetosphere
53. lithosphere
54. oceanic crust
55. continental crust
56. Geologic Cycle
57. hydrologic cycle
58. tectonic cycle
59. convection loop
60. rock
61. mineral
62. igneous rock
63. sedimentary rock
64. lithification
65. metamorphic rock
66. rock cycle
67. geologic time
68. Holocene
69. geomorphology
70. landform
71. continental shelf
72. alpine chain
73. continental shield
74. Theory of Continental Drift (plate tectonics)
75. Pangaea
76. passive plate margins
77. transform plate margins
78. plate divergence
79. plate convergence
80. subduction
81. rift valley
82. mid-oceanic ridge
83. orogenesis
84. orogeny
85. oceanic-continental collision
86. oceanic-oceanic collision
87. continental-continental collision
88. earthquake
89. 1886 Charleston Earthquake
90. fault
91. focus
92. epicenter
93. seismograph
94. Richter scale
95. fault
96. normal fault
97. reverse fault
98. strike-slip fault
99. overtrust fault
100.
p-waves
101.
s-waves
102.
volcano
103.
Pacific Ring of Fire
104.
pyroclastics
105.
lahars
106.
ash field
107.
silicosis
108.
volcanic ash
109.
volcanic lightning
110.
dirty thunderstorms
111.
hot spot
112.
seamount
113.
geyser
114.
caldera
115.
supervolcano
116.
Volcanic Explosivity Index
II. Be able to answer the following short answer questions:
1. What are some of the causes of deforestation in the tropical rain forest?
2. What are some of the adaptations plants have to survive drought and fire?
3. What 3 general geographic areas can you find deserts?
4. Name and describe the 2 types of symbiotic relationships.
5. What are the major factors that influence vegetation distribution?
6. What are some of the impacts of deforestation? Overgrazing?
7. Name and describe the 4 basic soil properties.
8. Name and describe the 4 soil-forming processes.
9. Name and describe the 4 soil-forming factors.
10. Name and describe the 3 size categories for soil particles.
11. Why would it be important to understand the texture of the soil?
12. Describe the 6 soil horizons
13. Explain how we know anything about the Earth’s interior
14. Name and describe the consistency of all of Earth’s inner layers
15. Explain why the Earth has a magnetic field (magnetosphere).
16. What is the purpose of the asthenosphere.
17. Describe the differences between intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks. Give an example
of each type of rock.
18. Name the three types of sedimentary rocks and give examples of each
19. What are 2 examples of metamorphic rocks?
20. How was Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift was proven?
21. Name and describe Georgia's physiographic regions
22. Briefly describe the formation of the Appalachian Mts
23. Name and describe the 3 types of volcanoes.
24. Name the 3 areas where volcanoes can be found on Earth.
25. What is the significance of the Pacific Ring of Fire?
26. Describe some of the health problems caused by volcanic ash/dust.
III. Study the following diagrams:
1. Rock Cycle. Include the following terms: igneous rock, metamorphic rock, sedimentary
rock, magma, sediment, heat/pressure, melting.
2. Formation of crust. Include the following: subduction, convergent plate boundary,
divergent plate boundary, oceanic ridge