REMINDER: STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019

Study Guide

Here is a set of questions that will help you to prepare for our upcoming final exam.

1. Identify and label parts of a wave.
2. Identify a wave on an oscilloscope based on the wave’s frequency, pitch, and amplitude in terms of its loudness/softness.
3. Explain how sound and light waves are able to travel through different mediums.
4. Review the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of its characteristics based on frequency, wavelength, energy, and color characteristics on the spectrum.
5. Distinguish among the terms transparent, translucent, and opaque.
6. Describe how light behaves as it enters the 2 different lenses.
7. Describe how do you remember the colors of the visible light on the EM spectrum.
8. Compare a mold to a cast when studying fossils.
9. Define: index fossil, trace fossil, amber, superposition, carbon-14 and Uranium-Lead dating methods, disconformity, nonconformity, and angular unconformity.
10. Compare and contrast relative dating with absolute dating.
11. Distinguish between radioactive decay and radiometric dating.
12. As you think of a geologic column, be able to identify or tell the difference among tilting, folding, angular unconformity, intrusion, and a fault.
13. Review the rock layer diagrams that was given to you and be able to label the rock layers from oldest to youngest and vice versa.
14. Be able to distinguish between James Hutton’s and Charles Lyell’s literature work as well as the ideas of uniformitarianism and catastrophism.
15. Half-life problems: If you have practiced on the “Extra-problems Worksheet” that was given to you, then you will EASILY be able to solve the similar problems on the test.

VIDEOS

Fossils

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqphOYcRMc

Carbon Dating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcuz1JiMk9k

Geologic Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWp5ZpJAIAE

Review of Chapter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuL47NZwCA