The document outlines various assignments and discussions for a geology course (GLG 220), including weekly discussion questions, lab reports, and writing assignments on topics such as geologic time scale, plate tectonics, groundwater, and environmental sustainability. Each week’s content features specific questions that require students to respond in 200-300 words, as well as resources for their research. Additionally, it references a website for accessing course materials and submissions.

2. GLG 220 Entire Course
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 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

3. GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 1
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 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?

4. GLG 220 Week 1 DQ 2
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 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?

5. GLG 220 Week 1 Mineral Identification Worksheet
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 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_corne
r/id/mineral_id_keyi1.htm#Intro After reviewing the
introduction return to Table of Contents and read about
the Mineral physical property Hardness

6. GLG 220 Week 1 Summary Questions
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 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

7. GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 1
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 Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below
and title your answer with Reply.
 1. Will plate tectonics eventually turn off and cease to
operate on Earth? Why or why not?
 2. 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.

8. GLG 220 Week 2 DQ 2
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 Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below
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 1. How can the Appalachian Mountains be considered a
collision-type mountain range when the nearest continent is
5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) away?

9. GLG 220 Week 2 Lab Earthquake Report
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 Week Two Lab Earthquake Report
 From Geoscience Laboratory, 5th ed. (p. 165), by T. Freeman,
2009, New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Reprinted

10. GLG 220 Week 2 Plate Tectonics Paper (UOP)
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 GLG 220 Week 2 Plate Tectonics Paper

11. GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 1
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 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?

12. GLG 220 Week 3 DQ 2
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 Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below
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 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?

13. GLG 220 Week 3 Groundwater Lab Report
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 GLG 220 Week Three Groundwater Lab Report

14. GLG 220 Week 3 Sculpturing the Earth’s Surface
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 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 human use Landslides
threatening the infrastructure of a region

15. GLG 220 Week 4 Deserts Lab Report
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 GLG 220 Week Four Deserts Lab Report

16. GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 1
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 4. How can an observer experience two unequal high tides
during a day?
 5. What is the composition of sea water? What does salinity
mean?
 6. Beach erosion is related to natural process such as long
shore current. How is beach erosion also related to human
activity?

17. GLG 220 Week 4 DQ 2
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 7. The Arizona cities of Flagstaff and Phoenix are relatively
close to one another yet have contrasting climates. Why does
this difference occur?
 8. What are the features of the ocean floor and how can they
be explained by plate tectonics?
 9. What is the Coriolis Effect?

18. GLG 220 Week 4 Oceans and Atmosphere Worksheet
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 GLG 220 Week 4 Oceans and Atmosphere Worksheet

19. GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 1
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 Answer in 200-300 word count. Choose one question below
and title your answer with Reply.
 1. What are the products of crude oil? How are these
products produced?
 2. How is coal formed in the earth?
 3. How can the tides be used as an energy source?

20. GLG 220 Week 5 DQ 2
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 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?

21. GLG 220 Week 5 Environmental Sustainability Paper
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 Wind Power: Its Pros and Cons
 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.

22. GLG 220 Week 5 Individual Questions (UOP)
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 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.