Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc.
1210B Salazar Road - Taos, NM USA 87571
Phone: (800) 293-2725 or (575) 758-5535 - Fax: (575) 758-5536
E-mail: info@tasagraphicarts.com
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Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc. 1210B Salazar Road - Taos, NM USA 87571 Phone: (800) 293-2725 or (575) 758-5535 - Fax: (575) 758-5536 E-mail: info@tasagraphicarts.com |
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Earth's Dynamic Surface
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| 1) |
How are glaciers
and climate tied to early Viking exploration? |
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| 2) | Define “hot-house.” |
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| 3) | When in Earth's history did hot-houses occur? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 4) |
What is the correlation between
CO2 in atmosphere and global temperature? |
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| 5) | Define “ice-house.” |
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| 6) | Generally, is the Earth warming
or cooling through time? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 7) | Currently, in general, are we in
an ice-house or hot-house? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 8) | During the Quaternary, has global
temperature fluctuated a little or a lot? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 9) | What does a geomorphologist do?
___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 10) | Give names of two main ice sheets
of North America. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ |
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| 11) | Name the 4 main glacial deposits
of recent Quaternary. ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ |
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| 12) | How do we use ocean sediments to
tell about past climates? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 13) | What is a “SMOW?” ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 14) | Ocean H2O has mostly
what isotope? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 15) | During glacial period, ocean H2O
is mostly O18 rich. Why? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 16) | During a glacial period, the mineral
used to form shells in oceans is primarily what isotope concentrate? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 17) | Why does the hydrolysis weathering
process suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 18) | What are Milankovitch cycles? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 19) | Define precession. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 20) | Define eccentricity. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 21) | Define obliquity. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 22) | The Earth’s obliquity maximum
and minimum are? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 23) | When the Earth is closest to the
Sun, this is termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 24) | When the Earth is farthest from
the Sun, this is termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 25) | What is the approximate number of
years to repeat precession? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 26) | Name of the North Star today? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 27) | In 11500 years what star will be
the North Star? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 28) | What is the correlation (likeness)
between the summed curve and the oxygen isotope? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Click on Deposition on frame 383. |
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| 29) | Rock debris deposited by a glacier
is termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 30) | Snowflakes that turn to ice crystals
are termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 31) | What is the zone of accumulation? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 32) | What is the zone of ablation? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 33) | What is the snowline? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 34) | An advancing ice front means what
about temperatures on the Earth? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 35) | Till under the ice front of a glacier
is termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 36) | Rock debris pile along the front
is termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 37) | Describe the sorting of till (poor
or well). ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 38) | A moraine dammed meltwater lake
is termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| Click on the numbers on frame 402. |
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| 39) | Define a cirque. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 40) | Define a tarn. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 41) | What is a pyramid shaped mountain
top surrounded by cirques? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 42) | What is a hanging valley? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 43) | Sharp ridges between two cirques
are termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| Click on the numbers on frame 404. |
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| 44) | Extensional crack in the glacier
surface is termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 45) | How are eskers formed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 46) | What type of streams are in outwash
regions? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 47) | Define kettle. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 48) | Define kame. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 49) | A whale back shaped debris pile
is termed? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 50) | What controls the stability of the
ice sheets of Antarctica? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 51) | When were the last continental glaciers
in the US? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 52) | This glacial period was called?
___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 53) | What happens to the US coastline
if the West Antarctic ice sheet collapses? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| 54) | What is permafrost? ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
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