* Recall that all assignments must be received in my email inbox no
later than Friday (@ 11 p.m.) of the week that they were assigned.
Please send your responses as word.doc attachments; and remember that all
email sent to me must contain the word "distance"
in the subject line.
A reminder that our third (and last -- yea!) exam will be given this coming Monday (12/8/03) at 7 pm, in Graham 116 (if you have a conflict, I need to know ASAP -- thanks). The exam will be comprised of (approximately) 50 multiple choice and true and false questions. You will need a scran-tron sheet -- but I will provide them.
As I mentioned earlier, the exam will not be cumulative, but instead, will cover only the material that was assigned after the end of the second exam through the end of the semester. Thus, you are responsible for the following lecture sets and chapters:
See you Monday night at 7 pm! Have a nice
weekend!
Answer, and submit your results to me via email: (1) your responses to the Chapter 14 Multiple Choice, T&F, and Identification questions on the Prentice Hall Web Site; and (2) from the Chapter 5 area on the Prentice Hall Web Site, question 3 from the "identification" questions, all of the multiple choice questions (although, do not worry about the questions on glaciers), and lastly, the "Critical Thinking" question.
Note from the "scheduleof topics web page," that there is no reading or written assignment for next week (Week Fifteen 11/24-11/28), because of the Thanksgiving Day Holiday. Enjoy your holiday.
The assignment for Week 16 ( 12/1 - 12/5) will be Chapters 14 and 5; and the lecture sets on Shorelines (set 28), and Deserts; Geologic Processes in Arid Climates; Basin and Range Region; Wind Erosion and Deposition (set 30).
You are not responsible for the material on glaciers (set 29), nor the reading in Chp. 5 in your text on glaciers.
This marks the end of the material that you are responsible for in the course.
Please study the following lecture sets: (24) The Hydrologic Cycle; Running Water; Stream Erosion, Transportation, Deposition; Stream Valleys; (25) Ground Water Distribution, Porosity, and Permeability; and (26) Movement; (27) Springs and Wells, and Karst Landscapes. All of this material is covered in Chapter 4, so please read it. I am not assigning lecture set (28) Shorelines, and the reading in chapter 14.
You do not havea written assignment to submit this week. However, I would suggest that you do the chapter review exercises on your own and take the Prentice Hall T/F and Multiple Choice Practice exams (do not submit your answers to me though.)
Plus, I have decided, because I think it is to your advantage, not
to make your remaining exam cumulative. You will only be tested on
the material from after the 2nd exam.
The reading assignment for next week is Chapter three, and you are also responsible for the following lecture sets: (21) Weathering, (22) Soil, (23) Mass Wasting..... that's it.. but I'm sure that is more than enough to keep you busy...
Written Asignment: Page 94, Review Questions: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23.
For Week 11, please read chapter 2, but not chapter 8. You are responsible for the following lecture sets: (17) The Rock Cycle and Igneous Rocks; (19) Sedimentary Rocks; and (20) Metamorphic Rocks. We are skipping (for now) Lecture Set 18, Volcanoes.
Week 11 Written Assignment: Please complete and submit your responses to the multiple choice and true & false exams from the Chapter 2, Prentice Hall web site. I would also encourage you to try to answer the questions that are on the P. Hall "short answer questions" exam from Chapter 2. Do not submit your responses to the short answer exam to me however. Also, please use your GEODE CDROM, it will greatly enhance your understanding of the material from Chapter 2.
Don't forget, we have our second on-line exam next week. I
will provide information about the exam and a study outline later this
week.
For Week 10, please read Chapter 7 and study the material from Lecture Set 14: Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift; Plate Boundaries; Evidence for Plate Tectonics. Next, read Chapter 1, and study the material from Lecture Set 15: Minerals vs. Rocks, Atomic Structure, Chemical Bonds; also study the material from Lecture Set 16: Mineral Composition, Structure, Properties, and Groups. Remember to look at the corresponding topics on the GEODE CDROM -- it will be VERY helpful to you in understanding this material.
Your written assignment this week is to respond to the following end-of-chapter
questions on pages 223 and 36 & 37.
Page 223, #'s: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 20, 21.
Pages 36 & 37, #'s: 1-9, 12, 13.
Since this is a longer assignement this week, I will give you until
Sunday morning (10/26) to submit your answers to me via email.
Week 9 is a short week because of Fall Break. Therefore, I am lessening the material that your are responsible for, and I am not assigning anything that you need to turn in. We are skipping the material on "Climate" -- Lecture Set 11, and proceeding to the material listed for Week 9. However, I only want you to look at Lecture Set 12: Fundamental Geological Principles & Earth’s Interior -- we will get to "Earthquakes" (Set 13) and Plate Tectonics: Continental Drift; Plate Boundaries; Evidence for Plate Tectonics (Set 14) later. As far as your reading is concerned, please read all of Chapter 10, and just the section of Chapter 6 that discusses "Earth's Interior".
Again, there is no written assignment for Week 9. ( I will be out of
town until late Tuesday night if you are looking for me.) Enjoy your Fall
Break.
Please email me with questions!
In addition to reading your notes and the text, and reviewing the GEODE CDROM, please make certain to carefully examine the WW2010: Forces and Wind web site, looking at all nine modules in that section ("pressure" through "land breezes"). After you have done this, please go to the below web page and answer questions 3, 4, and 5. You can't label the figures as the questions require, however, you can explain in writing where the labels should go on the figures shown. I think that you will enjoy this assignment and it shoud not take too long. You have been working very hard in the course, and I am trying to give you a shorter assignment this week -- because I know that everyone is busy.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/prs.rxml
The exam will be given electronically, on Thursday, Sept. 25. You can take the exam during any one of six time periods on Thursday, 9/25: from 10 am - noon; from 1 pm - 3 pm; from 5 pm - 7 pm; from 8 - 10 pm; from 10 pm - midnight; and from 11 pm - 1 am.. You must email me at least 24 hours before the exam and tell me during which time period you are choosing to take the exam. I will email the exam to you (as a "word" doc) and you will email your responses back to me within the 2-hour time period. The exam will be a closed notes, closed book exam. If the above-mentioned time periods, or date, is problematic for you, please email me ASAP! I will be posting a study outline for the exam early in the upcoming week. Please email me with questions.
On the Prentice Hall Text Companion Web Site, for
Chapter 16, please complete the muiltiple choice exam and the
true
and false exam and email your results to me (GJLENNAR@UNCG.EDU).
Please take each of the two exams as many times as you need in order to
anwer all of the questions correctly. I.O.W., everyone should score
100% on these two practice exams. You should also answer the two
questions that are part of the "Identification" practice exam, but
do not submit your responses to me -- just take this exam for practice.
Also, please answer the following questions on the "Short Answer"
practice exam, and submit your responses to me via email, as you did with
the multiple choice and true/false exams: #'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
11, 13, 16.
On Page 430 in your text, please answer the following "Review Questions": 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Also, "Examining the Earth System", question #2. As always please include the question with your response, and send your assignment as an attached, word document. Thanks!
Also, to check your understanding of the material in Chp. 15, I would
strongly suggest that you vist the Prentice
Hall web site for Chp. 15 and take the practice exams found there.
This would be good preparation for our upcoming exam.
http://www.uncg.edu/~gjlennar/103_week2.pdf
The only assignment this week is another contribution to the discussion board on BB. (See the new forum on BB).
http://www.uncg.edu/~gjlennar/key_week_1.htm
Week 2 Assignment (8/25-8/29)
Please type your responses in microsoft word and email them to me in one attachment (as you did last week).
1) Go to the following ww2010 web site and answer questions 1-8.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/utc.rxml
2) Also on the below ww2010 web site, respond to questions 1 and 2.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/prs.rxml
3) Answer the following questions:
a) What is the difference between weather and climate?
b) Define the terms weather element and climate
element; and list the basic weather and climate elements.
c) What are the two major components of clean, dry
air? Are they important meteorologically?
d) Why do we say that water vapor is a variable
constituent of our atmosphere?
e) List the four layers of the atmosphere on the
basis of temperature, starting with the layer closest to the ground.
Explain how temperature changes in each of the four layers.
f) Why does temperature increase with height in
the stratosphere?
g) Define the term pressure in both mathematical
terms and in conceptual terms.
h) Both pressure and density decrease with height
in the atmosphere, why?
i) Compute the following five temperature conversions:
(1) 90 F to Celsius
(2) 0 Celsius to Kelvin
(3) 0 Kelvin to Celsius
(4) 0 Celsius to Fahrenheit
(5) -40 Celsius to Fahrenheit
1) Respond to the end-of-chapter Review Questions 1-12 on page 17. Please write each of the questions out, and place your responses to them after each question.
2) Respond to Examining the Earth System, Question 1. Here too, please write the question out, and place your response after the question.
3) Go to the "Discussion Board" feature in Blackboard, and place your response to the Week One discussion question.