DO ANY TWO QUESTIONS ON EACH PAGE

1. Illustrate and explain the rock cycle. Include as much explanatory detail as you can.

2. Describe at least six flood plain features. What landforms, processes and materials would you expect to see on a river flood plain or in a flood plain river?

3. Describe at least six characteristic features of karst regions. What do you expect to find in a karst region?

4. Describe at least six physical properties used to identify minerals.

5. Describe a depositional contact between granite and sandstone OR an intrusive contact. What are the relative ages of the rocks? Explain your answer?

6. Explain the Principle of Faunal Succession. What is the logical basis for arranging fossils in a time sequence?

7. Why are sedimentary rocks stratified? What natural processes lead to stratification?

8. Explain how we can determine the absolute age of a granite pluton? How do we know how old some particular granite intrusion is?

9. Name and describe three mass-wasting processes and their products.

10. Describe three processes of glacial erosion of bedrock. What are three ways that glaciers erode bedrock? Explain each.

11. What are the two principal requirements for the existence of a glacier. Under what conditions can a glacier form and persist through time?

12. Define and explain drumlins, eskers and end moraines (terminal moraines). Include origin, attributes, significance and so on.

13. Write about what you learned on the field trip to Mount Pawtuckaway. Use back of page for answer.