PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
STUDY GUIDE
EXAM 3

Read Chapters 13,14,& 15

Study all vocabulary terms

Additional Hints :

• What are mid-ocean ridges and what occurs there?
• How do igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks form?
• Be able to categorize all the rocks discussed in class.
• Define the term mass movement and know some examples.
• Know the characteristics if normal, reverse, thrust, and strike-slip faults.
• Know some examples of plutonic features.
• What volcanoes make up the core of the Hawaiian Islands?
• How did Crater Lake form and what is a caldera?
• Know the order of events of how the earth and life formed according to the scientific community.
• What are horsts and grabens?
• What are the two basic categories of weathering?
• Understand root wedging, frost wedging, and exfoliation.
• What causes exfoliation?
• What is solifluction?
• What is the Mercalli Scale used for?
• What are anticlines and synclines?
• What are some lines of evidence used to support the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
• Understand the Richter Scale?
• What is the Moho?
• How do island -arc chains form?
• Understand the term half-life.
• What kind of faults produce fault scarps with the most vertical relief?
• How are the Hawaiian Islands forming?
• What kind of a plate boundary is represented by the San Andreas Fault?
• What is creep?
• What determines the rate of mass movements?
• How do rift valleys form?
• How are the Himalayas forming?
• How is the distance from the epicenter to a seismograph station determined?
• Can faults occur in the same general area as folding?
• Along what kind of plate boundaries is volcanic activity the most prevalent?
• Define the term tsunami and understand how they form.
• You will have two problems (cross sections) with respect to relative dating.

ESSAY

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