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GLG 101 Assignment: Groundwater Lab
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Resource: pp. 213–227 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendix N.
Answer the Appendix N questions from your lab book. Write your
responses in Appendix N.
Complete ALL of Appendix N.
Post completed Appendix N to the individual forum.
Due day 7
GLG 101 Assignment: Relative and Absolute
Geologic Time Lab PART 1 OF 2
Resources: pp. 89–104 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendixes I & J
Identify and classify the rock examples in Appendix I.

Answer the Appendix questions from your lab book. Write your
responses in Appendix J.
Complete ALL of Appendix J.
Post completed Appendixes I and J and post them in the individual
forum.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Assignment: Relative and Absolute
Geologic Time Lab PART 2 OF 2
Resources: pp. 89–104 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendixes I & J
Identify and classify the rock examples in Appendix I.
Answer the Appendix questions from your lab book. Write your
responses in Appendix J.
Complete ALL of Appendix J.
Post completed Appendixes I and J and post them in the individual
forum.
Due day 7.

GLG 101 Assignment: Topographic and Contour
Maps Lab Appendix D
Resources: pp. 32–45 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendix D
Answer ALL questions in Appendix D
Write your responses in Appendix D.
Complete Appendix D.
Post the completed Appendix D in the individual forum.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Assignment: Volcanic Products Lab
PART 2 OF 2

Resources: pp. 69–86 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendixes G & H
Identify and classify the rock examples in Appendix G.
Answer the questions in Appendix H from your lab book in Appendix H.
Write your responses in Appendix H.
Complete ALL of Appendix H.
Post completed Appendixes G & H in the individual forum.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Assignment: Deserts Lab
Resources: pp. 265–276 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendix M
Answer the Appendix M questions from your lab book. Write your
responses in Appendix M.
Complete ALL of Appendix M.
Post completed Appendix M to the individual forum.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Assignment Earthquake Technology Lab

Resources: pp. 156–170 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendix F
Answer the questions listed in Appendix F from the lab book. Write your
responses in Appendix F.
Complete ALL of Appendix F.
Post the completed Appendix F in the individual forum.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Assignment Relative and Absolute
Geologic Time La
Resources: pp. 4–20 of the lab book and Appendix E
Answer the questions in Appendix E from the lab book.
Complete ALL of Appendix E.
Post the completed Appendix E in your individual forum.

Due day 7b
GLG 101 Assignment: Volcanic Products Lab
PART 1 OF 2
Resources: pp. 69–86 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendixes G & H
Identify and classify the rock examples in Appendix G.
Answer the questions in Appendix H from your lab book in Appendix H.
Write your responses in Appendix H.
Complete ALL of Appendix H.
Post completed Appendixes G & H in the individual forum.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Entire Course

GLG 101 Assignment: Relative and Absolute Geologic Time Lab
GLG 101 Assignment: Earthquake Technology Lab
GLG 101 Assignment: Volcanic Products Lab PART 2 OF 2
GLG 101 Assignment: Volcanic Products Lab PART 1 OF 2
GLG 101 Assignment: Relative and Absolute Geologic Time Lab PART
1 OF 2
GLG 101 Assignment: Relative and Absolute Geologic Time Lab PART
2 OF 2
GLG 101 Assignment: Deserts Lab
GLG 101 Assignment: Groundwater Lab
GLG 101 Week 1 CheckPoint: Study of Earth
GLG 101 Week 1 Assignment: Minerals
GLG 101 Week 2 CheckPoint: Fossils and the Geologic Column
GLG 101 Week 2 DQS
GLG 101 Week 3 CheckPoint: Plate Tectonic Theory
GLG 101 Week 3 Assignment: Earthquakes
GLG 101 Week 4 DQS
GLG 101 Week 5 CheckPoint: Weathering and Erosion
GLG 101 Week 5 Assignment: Sedimentary Rocks
GLG 101 Week 6 DQS
GLG 101 Week 6 CheckPoint: Metamorphic Rocks

GLG 101 - Week 6 Assignment: Metamorphic Rocks Lab PART 1/2
GLG 101 - Week 6 Assignment: Metamorphic Rocks Lab PART 2/2
GLG 101 Week 7 Assignment: Deserts, Glaciers, and Climate
GLG 101 Week 7 CheckPoint: Water Impacts
GLG 101 Week 8 CheckPoint: Fossil Fuels and Minerals
GLG 101 Week 8 DQS
GLG 101 Week 9 Capstone CheckPoint
GLG 101 Assignment: Topographic and Contour Maps Lab- Appendix
D
GLG 101 Final Project: Title Factors and Forces of Geological
Features
GLG 101 Final Project: Title Factors and Forces
of Geological Features
Resources: U.S. Geological Survey Web site and Appendix A
Choose a state or one of the following regions:
Region 1: Interior Plain

Region 2: Appalachian Highlands
Region 3: Rocky Mountain System
Region 4: Pacific Mountain System
Region 5: Atlantic Plain
Review the different regions at: http://tapestry.usgs.gov/
Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for your
selected state or region.
GLG 101 Week 1 Assignment Minerals
Resources: Ch. 2 of the text, Virtual Mineral Lab, and Appendixes B &
C
Conduct the minerals lab by clicking on the following link: Use the
mineral worksheet found in Appendix B to record your observations and
results in identifying different minerals.
Write a summary answering the following: What are the four
requirements for a material to be classified as a mineral? How do you
differentiate between minerals? Briefly summarize the six methods to
tell minerals apart. Summarize the major differences between minerals
and rocks.

Post your Mineral Identification Worksheets and summary as an
attachment in the individual forum.
Due day 7.
Review Appendix A and choose a region or state that you plan to
research for your final project.
Submit your chosen region or state to your instructor in the individual
forum for approval.
GLG 101 Week 1 CheckPoint: Study of Earth
Resources: Ch. 1 of the text and Nebular Theory animation
Write a 200- to 300-word description of the three branches and three
systems of geology.
Review the animation at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com:8100/legacy/college
/
skinner/0471152285/animations/animations/mod_1/nebular_theory.html
Respond to the following: According to the nebular theory, how did the
solar system develop? How is uniformitarianism related to the evolution
of Earth and the solar system?

Post your description and responses in the individual forum.
Due day 5.
GLG 101 Week 2 CheckPoint: Fossils and the
Geologic Column
Resource: Ch. 3 of the text and p. 12 of Geoscience Laboratory
Post your responses to the following in the individual forum:
Review Figure 3.6 on p. 68 of the text. How do fossils help in
determining the relative age of strata? Are the three different localities
around the same relative age? Explain your response.
Reference p. 12 of the lab book. What periods are the fossils from in
Figure 3.6? What does this say about the area in Figure 3.6?
Due day 5
GLG 101 Week 2 DQS

Discussion Question 1:
Post your description and responses in the main forum under the DQ 1
thread.
Due day 2.
I will assign you one of the following methods of evaluating geological
time: Absolute Dating and Numerical Age or Relative Dating
Describe your assigned method and how it is used to evaluate geologic
time.
Review another student’s method different from yours.
Reply to another student who describes a different method than yours
and comment on which method you think is more reliable or accurate.
thread.
Due day 4.
Scientists debate about the use of fossils as a tool to determine records
of various events, such as the vanishing of the dinosaurs or the origin of
our ancestors.
Discuss the role of fossils in helping scientists develop accurate records
of the geologic history of the Earth based on what you know of fossils
from your textbook and other sources. In your discussion address
important discoveries such as the 3.3-million-year-old fossilized

remains of a child in the Dikika region of Ethiopia. Accounts can be
found at
 Note: Click on the above link to go to the MSNBC Web site. In the
search bar type “oldest baby fossil found” to locate information.
 Note: Click on the above link to go to the National Geographic Web
site. In the search bar type “oldest baby fossil” to locate information.
 Note: Click on the above link to go to the New Scientist Web site. In
the search bar type in “old baby fossil Ethiopia
GLG 101 Week 3 Assignment: Earthquakes
Resource: Ch. 6 of the text and the Igneous Rock animation
View the animation at
http://www.wiley.com/college/strahler/0471480533/animations/ch12_an
imations/animation1.html
Respond in 200 to 300 words to the following questions:
Where do igneous rocks originate?
How are they formed?
What are the two categories of igneous rocks?

What are the distinguishing characteristics between the two categories
of rocks?
Post your response in the individual forum.
Due day 5.
GLG 101 Week 3 CheckPoint: Plate Tectonic
Theory
Resources: Ch. 4 of the text and Continents of the Past animation
Respond to the following scenario:
Your younger brother is in fifth grade. He comes home and tells you to
look at an animation his teacher showed him in geology class.
Review the animation at
After viewing the animation, your brother has a look of disbelief on his
face, “C’mon, really? Our whole continent moves? That’s bogus!”
Instead of blowing him off like you usually do, you decide to sit down
and educate him about plate tectonics. First, you provide him an
overview about two historical figures that contributed to the plate
tectonic theory. Then you decide to show him how the plates move by

boiling a pot of water, which is shown on p. 108, and relating it to
mantle convection and plate movement.
Write a 200- to 300-word summary about the two historical figures and
the process of mantle convection and plate movement.
Post your summary in the individual forum.
Due day 5.
GLG 101 Week 4 DQS
thread.
Due day 2.
Review the Hot Spot animation at
imations/hot_spot.html.
Post your response to the following: Describe how plate tectonics is
related to the formation of volcanoes. Which type of plate margin
commonly forms volcanoes? Name one of the most popular volcanoes in
the United States or the world. Review

imations/walk_ring_fire.htm l or
http://nationalatlas.gov/dynamic/dyn_volcano.html if you need
assistance. Discuss whether the volcano is active and how it has
affected the area.
thread.
Due day 4.
Review the Volcanoes video at
http://higheredbcs.wiley.com/legacy/college/murck/0471747270/geodisc
overies/ch06/Volcanoes.htm. Post your response to the following: What
types of volcanic features are discussed? What caused these volcanic
features? What do you think the future of the Hawaiian Islands is from
the geologic point of view?
GLG 101 Week 5 Assignment: Sedimentary Rocks
Resources: Ch. 8 of the text and the Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
animation

View the animation at
Write a 700-word paper that provides an overview of how plate
tectonics affects sedimentation. Answer the following questions:
Where do sedimentary rocks originate?
How are they formed?
What are the three categories of sedimentary rocks?
What are the distinguishing characteristics between the three categories
of rocks?
Post your paper as an attachment in the individual forum.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Week 5 CheckPoint: Weathering and
Erosion - Please Add Own Images
Resource: Ch. 7 of the text
Create a five- to seven-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation of
the following:

Description of difference between weathering and erosion.
Graphical representation of the following:
mechanical weathering
chemical weathering
water erosion
wind erosion
ice erosion
Include a references slide for the graphical images you use.
Post your presentation as an attachment individual forum.
Due day 5.
GLG 101 Week 6 Assignment: Metamorphic
Rocks Lab PART 2 of 2
Resources: pp. 108–116 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendixes K &
L
Identify and classify the rock examples in Appendix K.

Answer the Appendix L questions from your lab book. Write your
responses in Appendix K.
Complete All of Appendix K & L.
Post completed Appendix K & L in the individual forum.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Week 6 Assignment: Metamorphic
Rocks Lab PART 1 of 2
Resources: pp. 108–116 of Geoscience Laboratory and Appendixes K &
L
Identify and classify the rock examples in Appendix K.
Answer the Appendix L questions from your lab book. Write your
responses in Appendix K.
Complete All of Appendix K & L.
Post completed Appendix K & L in the individual forum.
Due day 7.

GLG 101 Week 6 CheckPoint: Metamorphic
Rocks
Resource: Ch. 10 of the text.
Respond to the following questions in 200 to 300 words:
Where do metamorphic rocks originate? How are they formed?
What are the two categories of metamorphic rocks? What are the
distinguishing characteristics between the two categories of rocks?
Post your response in the individual forum.
Due day 5.
GLG 101 Week 6 DQS

thread.
Due day 2.
View the Understanding Faults animation at
imations/faults.html.
Describe the different types of faults and discuss at least one similarity
and one difference between a fault and a fold. If the San Andreas Fault
in California is to continue its activity, what does the future look like for
that area? What precautions must be taken?
thread.
Due day 4.
Post your response to the following: What are the major differences
between topographic and geologic maps? Refer to Figure 9.21 on p. 264
of the text. How do you determine the slope of the land surface in this
figure? If you consider building a house in a location in this area, what
is the best location for your house? Why? Refer to Figure 9.22 on p. 265
and locate at least three main structural features. Discuss why the
Canmore community is established on the northeast side of the map.
GLG 101 Week 7 Assignment: Deserts, Glaciers,
and Climate

GLG 101 Week 7 Assignment: Deserts, Glaciers, and
ClimateResources: Ch. 13 of the text, China Desert video, and online
animations
Review the following Ch. 13 video, China Desert:
http://www.wiley.com/college/murck/0471747270/ngs_videos/china_des
ert/index.html
Review the following animations:
Types of Dunes:
Glacial Landforms:
imations/glaciers.html
Compare and contrast the geological features of a desert landscape and
glacial landscape. Describe at least one process that creates the
resulting landforms of each.
Review pp. 402–410 on Global Climate Change. Respond to the
following:
Summarize the climate changes that have occurred from the past to the
present. Responses must be a minimum of 350 words.

Predict what you think the Earth will look like into the 21st century.
Consider the weather and changes in geological features. Responses
must be a minimum of 350 words.
Post your responses together in the individual forum. Responses must be
a minimum of 350 words each.
Due day 7.
GLG 101 Week 7 CheckPoint: Water Impacts
Resources: Ch. 11 of the text, Sinking England video, and online
animations
Review the following Ch. 12 video, Sinking England:
http://www.wiley.com/college/murck/0471747270/ngs_videos/sinking_e
ngland/index.html
Review the following Web sites:
Wave Refraction land forms:
Coastal Landforms:
http://www.wiley.com/college/strahler/0471669695/interactivities/flash/
waves_wind/waves_wind2.htm

Summarize the hydrologic cycle. How important is this cycle to Earth?
Post your summary to the individual forum.
Due day 5
GLG 101 Week 8 CheckPoint: Fossil Fuels and
Minerals
Resources: Ch. 15 of the text and Web sites on fossil fuels
Respond to the following in 300 to 350 words:
Where do fossil fuels and minerals come from?
Describe how at least one fossil fuel and mineral is formed from its
sources.
Navigate to the following Web sites to help in your research:
Note: Click on the link above to go to the South Australian Museum Web
site. Click on the heading What’s on and select online galleries from the
drop down menu. For information on fossils, click on the Origin Energy
Fossils Gallery.
Note: Select the link listed above to go to the U.S. Department of Energy
Web site. Type Fossil Fuels in the Search bar located on the top right
side of the screen. Click on the first article listed, Department of Energy

– Fossils Fuels. Once it opens, you will find a list of fossil fuels that you
may select to find more information.
Post your responses to the individual forum.
Due day 5.
GLG 101 Week 8 DQS
thread.
Due day 2.
Post your response to the following: Geologic events, such as volcanic
activity, play an important role in forming many of our valuable
resources, such as fossil fuel, lead, copper, and gold. For example, fig.
15.21 on p. 476 of the text shows the role of basaltic magma in forming
one of the most valuable ores to our civilization, chromium. Select an
important ore mined in your state or region, and discuss how geologic
events played a role in forming this ore. Discuss the importance of this
ore in the economy of your selected area and the U.S. as a whole.

thread.
Due day 4.
Post your response to the following: Discuss a nonrenewable resource
that you think will have the most significant effect to our lives if it is
depleted. Explain your choice. Are there current efforts to conserve it?
Provide an example of a person, place, or thing that utilizes a
renewable resource
GLG 101 Week 9 Capstone CheckPoint
Resource: Visualizing Geology
Discuss in 200 to 300 words, the importance of the science of geology to
us as a civilization. Provide at least two examples. For example, the
ability to predict earthquakes and other disasters, or understanding
mining and the use of natural resources.
Post your response to the individual forum.
Due day 7

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