GE201 LECTURE EXAM #2 STUDY AID

Exam #2 will be worth 120 points or 12 percent of your final grade. There will be 40 multiple choice question worth 3 points each.

OLD EXAMS

Old exams for GE201 are on reserve in the MTU library. Note that material covered in GE201 varies from year to year and so does the timing and content of exams. Thus, you need to focus on question appropriate to the material covered for exam #2, deformation, metamorphic rocks, geologic time, and groundwater. The old exams may also help you to get a sense of style of questions I am likely to ask.

CONCEPTS

Study all concepts presented in lecture and use textbook as a supplement

Use the Summary, questions for review, and questions for thought at the end of the chapters to help you better understand the material covered.

A number of questions will come indirectly or directly from figures, tables or boxes in the textbook. Here is a list that will be used to develop a number of questions for the exam.

TEXTBOOK FIGURES AND BOXES

The following is a list of specific Figures, Boxes and Tables in the Textbook to study.

Figure 7.2
Figure 7.3
Figure 7.5
Table 7.1
Figure 7.9
Table 7.2
Box 7.2
Figure 7.16
Box 7.3 (be sure to carefully look over this figure)
Figure 7.22
Table 8.1
Figures 8.2 to 8.12 will be covered in lab, not on lecture exam 2
Figure 8.16
Figure 8.17
Box 8.2
Box 8.3
Box 8.4(do not memorize equations but know the general picture of how to calculate the age of a rock)
Figure 8.24
Figure 8.26
Unlabeled Table on page 259
Table 11.1
Figure 11.1
Figure 11.2
Figure 11.3
Box 11.1
Figure 11.4
Figure 11.5
Figure 11.6
Figure 11.7
Figure 11.8
Figure 11.9
Figure 11.12
Figure 11.15
Box 11.3
Figure 11.17
Figure 11.18
Figure 11.20
Figure 11.27

TERMINOLOGY

The following is a list of terms that may appear on the exam.

absolute age
acid mine drainage
amphibolite
anticline
aquifer
Archean(know relative age not absolute age break)
artesian
burial
cataclastic/dynamic metamorphism
cave
Cenozoic(know relative age not absolute age break)
concretion
cone of depression
confined aquifer
contact
contact metamorphism
correlation
Cretaceous (know relative age not absolute age break)
cross-cutting relations
daughter product
decay rate
eon
epoch
era
fold
foliation
formation
Fracture
geode
geothermal energy
geyser
greenschist
groundwater
half-life
hot spring
index fossil
index mineral
isograd
isotherm
karst topography
Mesozoic(know relative age not absolute age break)
metamorphic facies
metamorphism
metasomatism
meteorites
monocline
normal fault
original horizontality
Paleozoic(know relative age not absolute age break)
Pennsylvanian(know relative age not absolute age break)
perched water table
period
permeability
petrified wood
Phanerozoic (know relative age not absolute age break)
Pleistocene (know relative and absolute age of break of 1.6 million years)
porosity
Precambrian(know relative age not absolute age break)
Proterozoic(know relative age not absolute age break)
Quaternary(know relative age not absolute age break)
radioactivity
Recent (know relative and absolute age break of 10,000 years)
recharge
regional metamorphism
relative age
reverse fault
saturated zone
schistose
shearing
sinkhole
slaty cleavage
spring
stalactite
stalagmite
strain
stress
stress - compressive stress
stress - differential stress
strike slip fault
superposition
syncline
Tertiary(know relative age not absolute age break)
unconfined aquifer
unconformity
uranium
water table
well
zircon