Geology

PROJECT 3

From Chapter 5

• What are the major chemical groups that comprise minerals (silicates, phosphorites, carbonates, salts. . . )? Give an example of a mineral in each group. Be substantive, complete, and original in your response—do not provide cut-and-paste text. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 5

• Define batholith, dike, laccolith, pluton, sill, intrusive, and extrusive. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 7

• Define caldera, flood basalt, pyroclastic rock, shield volcano, and phreatic eruption. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 7

• Define bedding, evaporite, fossil, strata, and detrital sediment. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 8

• Define regional metamorphism, shock metamorphism, contact metamorphism, and burial metamorphism. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

PROJECT 4

From Chapter 15

• Sketch/diagram and label the carbon cycle.

• Define soil horizon, mechanical weathering, chemical weathering, spheroidal weathering, and leaching. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 15

• Define creep, landslide, permafrost, solifluction, and talus. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

From Chapter 16

• Sketch/diagram and label the hydrologic cycle.

• Define stream divide, stream piracy, dendritic drainage, dissolved load, natural levee, suspended load, meander cutoff, ultimate base level, and two other terms. Give substantive, complete, and original definitions that are your expressions of the terms or concepts—not cut-and-paste definitions. Use citations as appropriate to support your statements.

PROJECT 5

• Visit the Virtual Caves website: http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/index.html. Briefly describe and provide an example of solution caves, sea caves, erosional caves, and lava tube caves.
• Visit the Center for Cave and Karst Studies (http://caveandkarst.wku.edu/). Discuss dye tracing.
• Visit the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSICD) site, scroll over Programs & Projects, and briefly discuss the contents of two of the sites: http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/index.html
•  Briefly describe the major earth science programs of the following governmental agencies: