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GLG 220 Course Material - glg220dotcom

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  1. GLG 220 Course Material – glg220dotcom

  2. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Entire Course (UOP) GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 1 Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. What is the basis and criteria for developing the geologic time scale? Based on your reading and experience, what is the most interesting period within the geologic time scale? Why? What is the nature of scientific inquiry? What is the difference between a scientific hypothesis and a scientific theory? How is hypothesis and theory different from a scientific law? • GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 1 • GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 2 • GLG 220 Week 1 Summary Questions • GLG 220 Week 1 Mineral Identification Worksheet • GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 1 • GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 2 • GLG 220 Week 2 Plate Tectonics Paper • GLG 220 Week 2 Lab Earthquake Report

  3. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 2 GLG 220 Week 1 Mineral Identification Worksheet (UOP) Resources: Ch. 2 of the text, Virtual Minerals Lab, Mineral Identification Key II and Appendix 2 • Read the Introduction located via the Table of Contents,Section 1 at Mineral Society of America’s Mineral Identification Key II available at the following link: • Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. • What information do fossils provide about past life on Earth? What information do fossils not provide? • Can you identify parts of a house that are made from minerals and rocks? What parts and what specific minerals or rocks? Are there any of those parts that could not be made for the house without some form of minerals or rocks? Explain.

  4. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 1 Summary Questions (UOP) GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 1 Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. Will plate tectonics eventually turn off and cease to operate on Earth? Why or why not? What are the differences between active and passive continental margins? What is the relationship between plate tectonics and the various features? Provide an example of each continental margin. How did the discovery of magnetic anomalies and reversals process contribute to our current acceptance of plate tectonics theory • GLG 220 Week 1 Summary Questions • Ch. 1: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 3 & 5 • Ch. 2: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 1 & 3 • Ch. 3: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 3 & 4 • Ch. 14: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 1 & 4

  5. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 2 GLG 220 Week 2 Lab Earthquake Report Week Two Lab Earthquake ReportFrom Geoscience Laboratory, 5th ed. (p. 165), by T. Freeman, 2009, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Reprinted • Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. • How can the Appalachian Mountains be considered a collision-type mountain range when the nearest continent is 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) away?

  6. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 2 Plate Tectonics Paper (UOP) GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 1 Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. Describe the hydrologic cycle. How does this cycle affect the earth? What is the potential danger due to mass wasting in your state or region? What is the effort spent to minimize the impact of mass wasting? What is the impact of soil erosion on farmland? What are the tools that could be utilized to minimize the loss of farmland to soil erosion? • GLG 220 Week 2 Plate Tectonics Paper

  7. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 2 GLG 220 Week 3 Groundwater Lab Report (UOP) GLG 220 Week Three Groundwater Lab Report • Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. 256 • Based on your reading, do you believe that we are in a period of glacial or interglacial stage? Why or why not? What are the current factors that might cause the acceleration of one stage over the other?

  8. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 3 Sculpturing the Earth’s Surface GLG 220 Week 4 Deserts Lab Report GLG 220 Week Four Deserts Lab Report • GLG 220 Week 3 Sculpturing the Earth’s Surface Resource: Visualizing Geology Select a city or region that is faced with one of the following issues:

  9. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 1 GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 2 The Arizona cities of Flagstaff and Phoenix are relatively close to one another yet have contrasting climates. Why does this difference occur? What are the features of the ocean floor and how can they be explained by plate tectonics? What is the Coriolis Effect? How does the atmosphere regulate the Earth’s climate? • How can an observer experience two unequal high tides during a day? • What is the composition of sea water? What does salinity mean? • Beach erosion is related to natural process such as long shore current. How is beach erosion also related to human activity? • How do oceans regulate climate?

  10. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 4 Oceans and Atmosphere Worksheet (UOP) GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 1 Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. What are the products of crude oil? How are these products produced? How is coal formed in the earth? How can the tides be used as an energy source? • GLG 220 Week 4 Oceans and Atmosphere Worksheet

  11. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 2 GLG 220 Week 5 Environmental Sustainability Paper Wind Power: Its Pros and ConsThe quest to find an alternative energy resource that is in accordance with history and latest trend in technology has paved the way for humans to look after the environment and to preserve the natural resources. An alternative energy resource is wind power. This is not a new discovery but overtime it took a fresh and better tactic. • 1. What are renewable and nonrenewable resources? Give examples of each. • 2. Galena is the primary ore of lead, Pb. Besides lead itself, what is a dangerous byproduct of smelting lead? How can this byproduct be prevented from entering the atmosphere? • 3. What are three fossil fuels? How much is used for industrial, home, and transport? How much energy is lost?

  12. GLG 220 Course Material GLG 220 Week 5 Individual Questions (UOP) • GLG 220 Week 5 Individual Questions • Prepare a response to Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 1–5 in Ch. 15 of Visualizing Geology. Provide an explanation in your responses. • Oil production in the United States satisfies only half of the country's needs; the rest is imported. If imports were cut off, what changes would you expect to occur in your lifestyle?

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