Geology 211, Spring 2005
Weekly Vocabulary Assignments for the "Jargon Quiz" first minutes of every Tuesday class
Last modified April 25, 2005
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Please note that you can access definitions of the Key Terms at the Essentials of Geology webpage here
Geology is a science with a "language all it's own." In many instances, it is quite useful to know at least some of these (often) polysyllabic, mellifluous utterances.
Each week I will post a subset of the "Key Terms" list from the current chapter we are studying in your book. The jargon quiz, held the first 10 minutes of many Tuesday classes, will ask you to provide the definition of 5 of these words.
Quiz 1 (for Week 2 Tuesday 1/18/05) (words from Key Terms section of Chapter 1, Marshak, 2004, pp. 34)
Big Bang, Ecliptic, Jovian Planets, Magnetosphere, Meteor, Nebula Theory of Planet Formation, Planetesimals, Solar Wind, Supernova, Van Allen Radiation belts
Week 3 Tuesday 1/25/05
No
Quiz this week. We will be having a Guest teaching the class.
Thank
Dr.
Meg Streepey (IU, Michigan, FSU) for saving you from the vile quiz.
Quiz 2 (for Week 4 Tuesday 2/1/05) (words from Key Terms section of Chapters 3 and 4, Marshak, 2004, pp. 97 and 122)
Considering that we are having the 1st exam on Thursday, 2/3, I have decided to abbreviate the list.
Polymorph, Assimilation, Country Rock, Pegmatite, Phenocrysts, Pluton, Xenoliths
Week 5 Tuesday 2/8/05
No
Quiz this week. We will be having another Guest teaching the class.
Thank Dr.
Kent Ratajeski for saving you from the vile quiz.
Quiz 3 (for Week 6 Tuesday 2/15/05) (words are "Key Terms" from Marshak, 2004, Chapters 6 and 5, Marshak, 2004, pp. 174 and 153)
Foliation, Protolith, Dynamic Metamorphism, Thermal (Contact) Metamorphism, Index Minerals, Isograds
Diagenesis, Lithification, Delta, Turbidite, Transgression, Sorting
Quiz 4 (for Week 7 Tuesday 2/22/05) (words are "Key Terms" from Marshak, 2004, Chapters 7 and 8, pp. 207 and 239)
Aa, Caldera, Pyroclastic Flow, Tephra, Ring of Fire, Magma Chamber
Focus, Epicenter, Seismograph, Displacement, P-Waves, Thrust Fault
Week 8 3/1/2005
No Quiz this week.
Quiz 5 (for Week 9 Tuesday 3/8/05) (words are "Key Terms" from Marshak, 2004, Chapters 9 and 10, pp. 270-271 and 301).
Anticline, Axial Plane, Ductile Deformation, Isostasy, Slickensides, Thrust Fault
Angular Unconformity, Contact, Cross-Cutting Relations, Formation, Radioactive Decay, Uniformitarianism
Quiz 6 (for Week 10 Tuesday 3/15/05) (words are "Key Terms" from Marshak, 2004, Chapters 11 and 12, pp. 323 and 352).
Archean, Cambrian Explosion, Chicxulub Crater, Ediacaran Fauna, Phanerozoic, Stromatolite
Anthracite Coal, Greenhouse Effect, Lignite, Reservoir Rock, Source Rock, Tar Sand
Quiz 7 (for Week 12 Tuesday 3/29/05) (words are "Key Terms" from Marshak, 2004, Chapter 12, p. 352).
Acid Mine Runoff, Bauxite, Cement, Critical Mass, Hydrothermal Deposit, Manganese Nodules, Placer Deposit, Slag, Strip Mining, Tailings Piles, Vein Deposit, Open Pit Mine.
Week 14 Tuesday 4/12/05
No Quiz this week (in consideration of webpage stress / strain). I WILL, however, take attendence.
Quiz 8 (for Week 15 Tuesday 4/19/05) (words are "Key Terms" from Marshak, 2004, Chapters 15 and 18, pp. 432 and 511).
Atoll, Fjord, Guyot, Longshore Current, Rip Current, Turbidite
Ablation, Drumlin, Esker, Erratics, Outwash, Roche Moutonee
Quiz 9 (for Week 16 Tuesday 4/26/05) (words are "Key Terms" from Marshak, 2004, Chapter 19, p. 535-536).
Acid Rain, Biodiversity, Catastrophic Change, Global Warming, Icehouse Period, Mass Extinction Event, Ozone Hole, Paleoclimate, Photochemical Smog, Superplume, Sunspot Cycle, Sustainable Growth