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GLG 220 Entire Course 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 1 DQ 1 Answer in 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?

GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 2 Answer in 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. GLG 220 Week 1 Mineral Identification Worksheet 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:

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 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.

GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 2 How can the Appalachian Mountains be considered a collision-type mountain range when the nearest continent is 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) away? 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

GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 1 Answer in 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? GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 2 Answer in 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?

GLG 220 Week 3 Groundwater Lab Report GLG 220 Week 3 Sculpturing the Earth’s Surface

GLG 220 Week 4 Deserts Lab Report GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 1 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?

GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 2 The 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? GLG 220 Week 4 Oceans and Atmosphere Worksheet

GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 1 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 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?

GLG 220 Week 5 Environmental Sustainability Paper 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. 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

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