Guide to comprehensive final exam (please note part of your final grade will include marks of spot quizzes and discussion hand-ins during class time this M, T, and W).

1) Questions taken from the following data bank:

          pdf files: S1 S2 S3 S4 S5     S8 S9 S10 S11 S12     S15

2) Short closed-book (half-page) essays on FOUR topics chosen from the following:

Ch 2 - Which is more hazardous chrysotile or quartz dust?

Ch 3 - Describe what is similar and dissimilar about dolerite, gabbro and diabase.

Ch 4 - Why should you move far away from a Cascades volcano when it is active but be merely cautious when a Hawaiian volcano is active.

Ch 6 - What geological process produces bauxide and what technology can make a body of it an ore?

Ch 7 - Describe the mineral changes that can result when a plutonic igneous rock (which formed at high temperature and pressure) becomes a metamorphic rock.

Ch 8 - Describe the type mass wasting that makes the north coast of Venezuela dangerous.

Ch 10 - The source of river's normal flow of channel-water and its flood water are different. Explain

Ch 11 - If it is to grow, a coconut washed onto a sea beach must root into fresh water. How is this possible?

Ch, 12 - What is right about this picture: An intrepid explorer comes upon the bones of a hippopotamus in the middle of the Sahara.

Ch. 13 - To know the tides you must have access to tide gauge records. Why?

Ch. 14 - What can be learned from throwing a lit stick of dynamite overboard in the deep ocean?

Ch 15 - In what way can the Mercalli scale be mire useful than the Richter scale?

3) (after you have handed in 1 and 2) Open-book (two-page plus any illustrations) essay on ONE of the following two topics:

3a) What geologically related question would you ask a council member running for re-election in your district and what would you accept as a reasonable answer and policy to be pursued.

3b) A motel owner at Ditch Plains on the south shore of LI is worried that the beachfront is badly eroded and has contracted to have a groin built straight out from the west side of the motel land. As a payed consultant, what can you advise [ ref 1  ref 2 ] about the effect  (both good and bad) and what alternatives could be considered.