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- 1. GLG 220 Entire Course For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 1 GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 2 GLG 220 Week 1 Summary Questions GLG 220 Week 1 Mineral Identification Worksheet GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 1 GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 2 GLG 220 Week 2 Plate Tectonics Paper GLG 220 Week 2 Lab Earthquake Report GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 1 GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 2 GLG 220 Week 3 Groundwater Lab Report GLG 220 Week 3 Sculpturing the Earth’s Surface GLG 220 Week 4 Oceans and Atmosphere Worksheet GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 1 GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 2
- 2. GLG 220 Week 4 Deserts Lab Report GLG 220 Week 5 Individual Questions GLG 220 Week 5 Environmental Sustainability Paper GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 1 GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 2 ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. What is the basis and criteria for developing the geologic time scale? Based on your reading and experience, what is the most interesting period within the geologic time scale? Why? What is the nature of scientific inquiry? What is the difference between a scientific hypothesis and a scientific theory? How is hypothesis and theory different from a scientific law? Select one of the common ores in your state or region (such as northwest United States, southeast United States, or western
- 3. Europe). Where does it come from? Why does it occur there? How important is it economically? Why? ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 2 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. What information do fossils provide about past life on Earth? What information do fossils not provide? Can you identify parts of a house that are made from minerals and rocks? What parts and what specific minerals or rocks? Are there any of those parts that could not be made for the house without some form of minerals or rocks? Explain. Most gemstones, such as topaz, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and diamonds, have a common mineral property that makes them gemstones. What is this property? Is that property responsible for their economic value? Why or why not?
- 4. ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 1 Mineral Identification Worksheet For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Resources: Ch. 2 of the text, Virtual Minerals Lab, Mineral Identification Key II and Appendix 2 • Read the Introduction located via the Table of Contents,Section 1 at Mineral Society of America’s Mineral Identification Key II available at the following link: http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/collectors_corner/id/mineral_id_ke yi1.htm#Intro After reviewing the introduction return to Table of Contents and read about the Mineral physical property Hardness. • Conduct the hardness test of the Virtual Minerals Lab located in the Materials section of your student Web site. Record your answers in Appendix 2 - Part 1. • Review the additonal physical properties discussed in the resources above. Using the information gained from the concepts discussed in your readings and Lab activity, read and record the answers to the questions posed in Appendix 2 – Part 2. *******************************************
- 5. GLG 220 Week 1 Summary Questions For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com GLG 220 Week 1 Summary Questions Ch. 1: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 3 & 5 Ch. 2: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 1 & 3 Ch. 3: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 3 & 4 Ch. 14: Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 1 & 4 ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
- 6. Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. Will plate tectonics eventually turn off and cease to operate on Earth? Why or why not? What are the differences between active and passive continental margins? What is the relationship between plate tectonics and the various features? Provide an example of each continental margin. How did the discovery of magnetic anomalies and reversals process contribute to our current acceptance of plate tectonics theory ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 2 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. How can the Appalachian Mountainsbe considered a collision-type mountain range when the nearest continent is 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) away?
- 7. What is an earthquake? What causes earthquakes? How did the Hawaiian Islands form geologically? How could the relative age of the islands be determined? ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 2 Plate Tectonics Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com GLG 220 Week 2 Plate Tectonics Paper ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
- 8. Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. Describe the hydrologic cycle. How does this cycle affect the earth? What is the potential danger due to mass wasting in your state or region? What is the effort spent to minimize the impact of mass wasting? What is the impact of soil erosion on farmland? What are the tools that could be utilized to minimize the loss of farmland to soil erosion? ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 2 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. 256 Based on your reading, do you believe that we are in a period of glacial or interglacial stage? Why or why not? What are the current factors that might cause the acceleration of one stage over the other?
- 9. One philosophy about pollution of water is that water can always be cleaned (e.g. by the use of distillation). Is this a viable solution? Why or why not? What are the different sources of water in the United States? Which source of water is mostly used in your region? How could we protect the sources of our water from drying up and contamination? ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 3 Sculpturing the Earth’s Surface For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com GLG 220 Week 3 Sculpturing the Earth’s Surface Resource: Visualizing Geology Select a city or region that is faced with one of the following issues: Saltwater invasion in coastal wells Depletion of an aquifer for drinking or agricultural water Subsidence associated with water pumping Depletion or pollution of surface water from
- 10. human use Landslides threatening the infrastructure of a region, such as roads, housing, or railroads Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you discuss the issue and potential solutions. Include the following: Geologic principles involved in the issue History of the region specifically associated with the depletion of resources or development of the problem Potential solutions to the hazard or problem ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com How can an observer experience two unequal high tides during a day? What is the composition of sea water? What does salinity mean? Beach erosion is related to natural process such as long shore current. How is beach erosion also related to human activity? How do oceans regulate climate? GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 2
- 11. For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com he Arizona cities of Flagstaff and Phoenix are relatively close to one another yet have contrasting climates. Why does this difference occur? What are the features of the ocean floor and how can they be explained by plate tectonics? What is the Coriolis Effect? How does the atmosphere regulate the Earth’s climate? ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 4 Oceans and Atmosphere Worksheet For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
- 12. GLG 220 Week 4 Oceans and Atmosphere Worksheet ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below and title your answer with Reply. What are the products of crude oil? How are these products produced? How is coal formed in the earth? How can the tides be used as an energy source? ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 2
- 13. For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com 1. What are renewable and nonrenewable resources? Give examples of each. 2. Galena is the primary ore of lead, Pb. Besides lead itself, what is a dangerous byproduct of smelting lead? How can this byproduct be prevented from entering the atmosphere? 3. What are three fossil fuels? How much is used for industrial, home, and transport? How much energy is lost? ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 5 Environmental Sustainability Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Wind Power: Its Pros and Cons
- 14. The quest to find an alternative energy resource that is in accordance with history and latest trend in technology has paved the way for humans to look after the environment and to preserve the natural resources. An alternative energy resource is wind power. This is not a new discovery but overtime it took a fresh and better tactic. History will reveal that hundreds of years ago, windmills were already use in Europe in wind farms with wind turbines in order to gain as much as wind energy as possible. This is an effective method in producing the maximum wind energy; however, there are pros and cons that one has to be aware with in this kind of alternative source of energy. Introduction Missouri produces wind energy coming from more than 2,500 square miles land that the state use as 63% portion of electricity. Windmills are producer of clean energy; however worn-out windmills produce otherwise. One hazardous element of wind turbines is carbon fiber composite. When wind turbine is worn-out, it has to be burned and trashed out, a process that is perilous to the atmosphere. This wind turbine replacement is necessary. One material of wind turbine is thermoset plastic; this usually creates the wind turbines’ strength and low weight requirement. A breakage from this wind turbine might destroy houses and buildings nearby and pieces of the blade might be scattered meters away. Wind power accidents are much common compared to nuclear accidents. Recorded in 2008 were casualties of 16 civilians and 41 workers—a continuously increasing number. During high winds, the turbines should be stopped and the rotation should be stopped in order to reduce this staggering figure of casualties. Moreover, a regular check-up on these wind turbines should be made in order to prevent bugs build-up and the wearing of the blades because if not 20-30% is estimate product loss. According to O’Sullivan, 2011, money is an important element in maintaining the quality of blades in order to maintain the wind power. Wind Power: The Pros There are many pros of wind power as a renewable resource of energy. It is estimated that wind turbines can usually generate 500
- 15. kilowatts of power that can lessen the carbon dioxide emission by approximately tw ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 5 Individual Questions For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com GLG 220 Week 5 Individual Questions Prepare a response to Critical and Creative Thinking Questions 1–5 in Ch. 15 of Visualizing Geology. Provide an explanation in your responses. Oil production in the United States satisfies only half of the country's needs; the rest is imported. If imports were cut off, what changes would you expect to occur in your lifestyle? If you are interested in controversies, investigate how geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that annualU.S. oil production would peak in the early 1970s (the actual peak occurred in 1971). Also, investigate the debate over whether the same predictive technique can be applied to world oil supplies. When do you think world oil production will reach its peak—or has it done so already?
- 16. Can you offer an explanation for this remarkable concentration? If you were part of a team of exploration geologists looking for large copper deposits, where would you focus your search? Given that we are now dependent on nonrenewable resources of energy and minerals, and that the world's population continues to increase, how do you think human societies will adjust in the future? Do we have a resource problem or a population problem (or both)? Some people think that sustainable development is not a useful concept, because it may be impossible to implement—or even to define—in the case of nonrenewable resources. Others think that it is an extremely important concept, if only because it makes us think about the needs of future generations in planning resource management. What do you think? ******************************************* GLG 220 Week 4 Deserts Lab Report For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com GLG 220 Week Four Deserts Lab Report GLG 220 Week 3 Groundwater Lab Report
- 17. For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com GLG 220 Week Three Groundwater Lab Report *******************************************