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WorksheetsTopics for Final Exam Winter 2024
Total questions: 62
Worksheet time: 3hrs 6mins
What is groundwater?
What is porosity and permeability?
What is aquifer (confined and unconfined, artesian)?
What is aquitard?
Groundwater uses
What is subsidence?
Sources of groundwater contamination
What is evapotranspiration?
How are groundwater and streamflow connected?
How do glaciers form?
Huronian glaciation (when and how it happened?)
Difference between ice cap and ice field
3 stages of glacial ice formation
Mechanism of glacial movement
Process of glacial erosion
Examples of glacial erosional landforms
Examples of glacial depositional landforms
What is moraine?
What is kettle lake?
What is esker?
What is drumlin?
How can glaciers "tell" about climate change?
How and where does permafrost form? Why is permafrost thawing dangerous?
What are periglacial environments?
How and where do earthquakes form?
What are seismics waves and how are they related to earthquakes?
Know definitions of focus, epicentre, foreshock, aftershock
How is earthquake magnitude measured?
What is earthquake intensity?
How are earthquakes measured? (seismograph)
Know how to read P- and S-waves on seismogram
How is earthquake damage assessed?
How can earthquakes be predicted?
What are the secondary effects of earthquakes?
How can human-induced earthquakes occur?
What are earthquake hazard maps?
Steps of earthquakes preparation and planning
Tectonic settings where volcanoes can occur
What are volcanic fissures?
Two eruption styles
Know volcanic features
Know volcano types
How do large igneous provinces form?
What is sea floor volcanism?
Main volcanic hazards: ash, tephra, pyroclastic flow, gas, lahars, lava flow
How are volcanic hazards monitored?
How to reduce risks of volcanic hazards?
Which natural resources can be obtained from volcanoes?
How is geothermal energy related to volcanoes?
What is chemical and physical weathering?
How is soil formed?
Main soil horizons
Soil properties: colour, texture, structure, chemistry, acidity/alkalinity
Human impact on soil
Canadian System of Soil Classification (know names of orders)
What is karst and how is it formed?
How do sinkholes occur?
How are caves formed?
What are lava tubes?
Economic values of karst
Agriculture influence on karst
Forestry influence on karst
