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Exam # 3 (Final) Study Guide - Spring 2008
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NOTE: Cell-phones, electronic devices of ANY sort, dictionaries, translators, notes, books CAN NOT be used during the test. You will ONLY need to bring:
This study guide must be interpreted (literally) as a guide to the study of the subject and not as a list of possible questions. It is YOUR responsability to cover the materials listed here on the lecture textbook, the lab textbook, your notes, including those you have taken during the projection of movies, if any. Additional material that has been made available on these web pages during the semester will also be part of the study material. For each textbook chapter that is going to be on the test, I listed all the paragraphs you need to study. I would strongly recommend that you peruse your notes for completeness of information: some concepts have been expressed with much more detail in class than are explained on the book, and you are responsible for that; know what the key terms and concepts are (see the list at the end of each chapter on both your textbook and your lab manual); exercise with the questions for review also found at the end of each chapter. Read the summary at the end of each chapter, try to answer review questions, try to work with others if you find it useful. Never hesitate to ask me questions in class or during the lab Also, do not forget that the final exam focuses for two thirds on the materials covered AFTER the second midterm and for one third on the main concepts we have seen since the beginning of the semester, and that were covered in the previous two tests. That is true for both textbook and lab manual chapters and materials.  | part 1 - lecture | Last Updated • May 26, 2008 | As always, I would suggest that, after studying, you review the summary at the end of each chapter; try to answer the review questions; try studying with other students in the class if you feel that it could help and you are comfortable with that; ask question in class so that everybody can take advantage of explanations. For these chapters on Earth History, focus mainly on the big scale: how and when our planet changed over time, from its origins to plate tectonics, to how plates evolved, moved around and interacted (within the limits we have discussed); how and when life arose and changed through evolution (for instance the first eukaryotes, the first fishes, the first terrestrial organisms, colonization of land by plants, etc.); how and when the environment changed (for instance, what happens when oxygen increases in the atmosphere; when an asteroid hits Earth; when a glacier expands or retreats; when an organism becomes an efficient predator; when an organism depends on another for its survival). As a rule, I will NOT ask specific organisms' names unless they are important, such as, as an example, a pelycosaur. The most common groups (and their names) WILL be in the test: for instance trilobites, corals, sponges, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, etc.). You will also need to be aware of where a certain plate (know their names, starting from the Archean) was during a certain time period; you need to know the evolution of these plates in time, and within a Period-scale framework. The chapters covered in class, 11 through 17, will be part of the test in their entirety. I will leave you with the responsibility of studying on your own the Introduction and the Chapter Summary at the end of Chapters 18 and 19, overall just four pages that will take your knowledge of the past very close to present day. There will be at least one question or two out of these two Chapters. Chapter 20 will not be part of the test.
Finally, you will need to know names and numerical ages of Eons, Eras and Periods as indicated on the Textbook.
Chapter 13 - The Early Paleozoic World
Chapter 14 - The Middle Paleozoic World
Chapter 15 - The Late Paleozoic World
Chapter 16 - The Early Mesozoic Era
Chapter 17 - The Cretaceous World
Chapter 18 - The Paleogene World
Chapter 19 - The Neogene World
Chapter 20 - The Holocene There will be no questions from this chapter | Study Guide: part 2 - LAB | Last Updated • May 26, 2008 | Chapters 10, 11 and 13 deal with paleontology, fossils and classification. A list of what you need to know is indicated for each Chapter but I want to stress here that you need to study the range of the major groups, as indicated below. Chapter 12 deals with biostratigraphy (one of the nine different tools we use in stratigraphy, as we have seen during the semester; there WILL be questions on stratigraphy). The point of this Chapter is to understand how fossils are used to determine relative age, and how we correlate. Also, the chapter provides you with a reminder that fossils can also be useful as indicators of ancient environment. Finally, a general subdivision of marine environments, the distinction between nekton, benthos and plankton, and between herbivores, carnvores and filter-feeders are also made here. Trace fossils close the Chapter. Chapter 14 deals with structures and we only deal with the main ones that we have seen both in class and in the lab.
Chapters 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 were not covered during Spring 2008; still, they are of great interest, since they present an introduction on general geology that we have seen (in different form) during lecture. There will be no direct questions from these chapters but my advice is to take a look at the Introduction and the Terminology for each chapter in order to refresh material that we covered in class and that might show up in the cumulative part of the test.
Chapter 11 - Fossils and Their Living Relatives (part 3: Mollusks, Arthropods, Echinoderms, Graptolites and Plants)
Chapter 12 - Fossils Indicators of Age, Environment and Correlation
Chapter 13 - A Brief Survey of the Vertebrates None of the questions from this chapter will involve scientific names
Chapter 14 - Geologic Maps and Geologic Structures All of the materials from this chapter have been covered in Chapters 8 and 9 from the Textbook. Stop at page 192 (8th edition of Lab Manual)
Chapter 15 - Canadian Shield and Basement Rocks of North America
Chapter 16 - Mountain Belts of North America
Chapter 17 - The Interior Plains and Plateaus
Chapter 18 - Igneous Rocks
Chapter 19 - Metamorphic Rocks
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