Geol 110 – Final Exam Guide, Spring Semester 2013

You may use one 8.5x11 inch page of notes during the exam. You may print, write, paint, imprint, batik, watermark, draw, or whatever you would like on both sides of the page, but you must stay within the plane of the paper (e.g., you can’t add post-it notes). You may not share note sheets with other students during the exam, and you willbe required to turn in your page of notes with your other exam documents.

The only materials you may have at your table during the exam are your page of notes, the exam documents and a pen or pencil. Everything else must be placed on the counters by the sinks or left with your professor at the front of the room. This includes beverage containers and miscellaneous detritus. None of your possessions may be on the floor around your table during the exam or stowed in your table’s storage slots. Any material in the table slots after the exam has started will assumed to be the property of the student closest to the slot, and will be treated accordingly, so please make sure there is nothing in your table slot before the exam begins.

No hats, hoods or similar head coverings may be worn during the exam. Jackets, scarves, wraps, coats and similar outerwear must also be placed on the counters by the windows with your other belongings. Shirts (such as sweatshirts) with oversized or kangaroo pouch-style pockets are also prohibited during the exam. Obviously,I will make reasonable exceptions for individuals who are uncomfortably cold due to the temperature in the room, so please ask if you need an extra layer for comfort.

All electronic devices must be turned off before being stowed with your other belongings. If your cell phone or other electronic device goes off (i.e., makes noise) during any part of the exam, your documents will be collected and you will be asked to leave. To avoid problems, I advise you to leave extraneous electronic devices at home.If there is some overwhelmingly important reason that your phone can’t be turned off during the exam, please explain the situation to me, and I will watch over your phone for you while you take the exam.

I will make extra pens and pencils available, so if your primary writing utensil fails for whatever reason, please come to my desk for a back-up. Similarly, if you need Kleenex or paper towels, I will provide those at my desk. The pencil sharpener in Sims 202 is working, so feel free to use that during the exam. If you have other requests, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Failure to adhere to these restrictions during the examination time could result in considerable unpleasantness, including charges of academic misconduct. Please consider this fair warning, and plan accordingly.

When you have finished your exam, please look it over carefully, turn in all of your exam documents(including your page of notes) and quietly exit the room. Please refrain from discussing the exam outside of the classroom, especially when students are still taking the exam.Under no circumstances may you discuss the exam with any students who have not completed the exam. For instance:

Asking another student to divulge informationabout the exam is a severe violation of the student conduct code, and will result in a grade of “F” for GEOL 110.

Giving information about the contents of the exam is a severe violation of the student conduct code, and will result in a grade of “F” for GEOL 110.

Discussing the contents of the exam on electronic media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, etc.) before all GEOL 110 students have taken the exam is a severe violation of the student conduct code, and will result in a grade of “F” for GEOL 110.

Discussing the exam within earshot of a GEOL 110 student who has not taken the exam is an extremely bad idea, as it may lead to charges of academic misconduct.

I suggest that you play defense and not discuss the exam with anyone until after all exams are done.One section of GEOL 110 has the last possible time slot during exam week, so to be safe, I would refrain from any discussion until May 1stat the earliest.

The exam will consist of three sections:

Section 1:Questions From Scheduled Quizzes (30 points). There will be at least one question and as many as three questions from each quiz. Please keep in mind that if you took a make-up quiz, you likely were given different questions than those given to students who took the quiz at the normal time. So that there is no confusion about which quiz questions could appear on the final exam, I will post a complete listlater in the semester (i.e., after we’ve completed Quiz Six).

Section 2: Multiple Choice Questions. (50 points)The publisher of your textbook has a “Student Study Space” for your textbook here:

If you click on any chapter, you will find all sorts of resources, including a link to a “Chapter Quiz”. I will choose multiple-choice questions from these practice quizzes for the final exam. I will concentrate on questions that cover material we also covered in lecture – especially if there was an in-class activity on the subject. I will draw 50 total questions from chapters we covered (chapters 1-8, 10-12, 14-16). I will not change the questions; they will be the same as you see them on the website.

Section 3:Matching Exercise. (20 points) In addition to the chapter quizzes, your textbook has a series of flashcards for each chapter, many of which contain the definitions of important geologic terminology. I have chosen 59 important terms from chapters we covered. A list of terms for the matching exercise follows this paragraph, and has been formatted as it will appear on the final exam. I will give you the flashcard definitions for 10 of these 59 terms, and ask you to match each definition with the correct term.

Terms from flashcards for matching exercise:

1. Active continental margin
2. Artesian well
3. Aquifer
4. Atmosphere
5. Body waves
6. Bowen’s Reaction Series
7. Braided stream
8. Cement
9. Cementation
10. Channel
11. Clast
12. Clastic sedimentary rock
13. Cone of depression
14. Core
15. Cross-cutting relationships
16. Crust
17. Crystal
18. Earthquake
19. Emergent coast
20. Energy resource / 21. Epicenter
22. Fault
23. Flood
24. Foliation
25. Fossil fuel
26. Fossil succession
27. Geothermal gradient
28. Groundwater
29. Half-life
30. Igneous rock
31. Isotope
32. Limestone
33. Longshore current
34. Magma
35. Mantle
36. Metamorphic rock
37. Mid-ocean ridge
38. Mineral
39. Moho
40. Natural levee / 41. Ore
42. Passive continental margin
43. Permeability
44. Plate boundary
45. Pluton
46. Porosity
47. Protolith
48. Recurrence interval
49. Relative age
50. Rock
51. Sea-floor spreading
52. Sedimentary rock
53. Seismic waves
54. Shield volcano
55. Stratovolcano
56. Subduction
57. Submergent coast
58. Superposition
59. Unconformity

If you have further questions about the final exam, please bring them to your GEOL 110 class meetings. Many students probably have the same question you do, and addressing it during class time is both helpful to your fellow students and a more efficient use of time together as a class. Also, I would consider kindness to only have to answer the same question a couple of times, rather than once for each student. Thanks!

I will not give out exam or final grades over e-mail, so please do not ask me to do so. I will post grades to Wingspan as soon as I have them. If you feel a mistake has been made in determining your final grade, please contact me to arrange a meeting.