To survive: Attend lectures, take notes, study the powerpoints, learn definitions of terms below
To thrive: Attend lectures, take notes, study the powerpoints, read the textbook, learn definitions, actively listen and engage in lectures, understand concepts, synthesize your knowledge. Exam format:
Answer all questions, all Multiple Choice
40 Questions, 50 minutes (1 minute per question, 10 minutes thinking time)
2.5 points each, this exam 100 total point. Lecture 14: erosion; eolian; fluvial; grain size; erosion of clays, sands ,gravels, ripples and currents, abiogenic versus biogenic; how clasts move, grain size and distance from the continents, erosion, transport, deposition, suspended load, saltation, delta. …show more content…
In the diagram below, corresponding to ripples in a geological outcrop, the paleo‐current was moving in which direction?
Lecture 15: CCD or marine snowline, diatoms, coccoliths, radiolarians, foraminifera, manganese nodules, bloom, silica, carbonate, law of superposition, ocean sediments as paleoclimate records.
Q. What is ‘the snowline’ of the ocean? Lecture 16: beaches, barrier islands, pocket beaches, headlands, stacks, arches, caves, wave cut notch, longshore drift, groin, spit, berm, low tide, high tide, breaker zone, swash zone, backshore, foreshore, offshore, seasonality of wave energy, seasonality of sediment inputs, wave cut platform, marine terraces, supratidal, intertidal, subtidal, mudflats.
Q. Beaches most likely to form along coastlines with outcrops of resistant rock are called? Lecture 17: delta, estuary, lagoon, Nile delta, Ganges delta, Mississippi delta, wave/river/tidal dominated, fjord, Norway, Chesapeake bay, San Francisco Bay, drowned river valley, drowned …show more content…
Lecture 19: autotrophs, heterotrophs, primary producer, consumer, predator, plants, animals, photosynthesis, organic material, inorganic material, carbon, carbohydrates, chlorophyll, nutrients, limiting Q.The forward and reverse reactions of the following equation describes what processes:
CO2 + H2O = nCH2O + O2
Lecture 20: classification (morphology & genetics basis), Linnaeus, eukaryote, prokaryote, invertebrate, vertebrate, littoral, pelagic, euphotic, photic, aphotic, abyssal, biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, archaea, extremophiles, issues with studying microbes (small!), we are eukaryotes, wer are just discovering the incredible diversity of prokaryotes/microbes (archaea, bacteria) with genetic tools. Lecture 21: trophic levels, food chains, food web, biomass, biomagnifications, phytoplankton, diatoms, coccoliths, dinoflagellates, red tides, zooplankton, heterotrophs, foraminifera, copepods, Example food chain: diatom, copepod, anchovy, tuna,