DO ANY TWO QUESTIONS ON EACH PAGE (EIGHT TOTAL)

1. What are methane hydrates? How might they help us or harm us?

2. Sketch cross-sections of normal and reverse faults. Label completely.

3. Draw a cross-section of an Aleutian style mountain range. Label completely.

4. Sketch cross-sections of synclines and anticlines. Label completely.

5. Explain fission track dating of igneous rocks.

6. Explain why mountains persist for much longer than erosion rates would suggest.

7. What is the Principal of Superposition? To what does it apply?

8. Describe three kinds of gold deposits.

9. Jacques Cartier sent the king of France pyrite and quartz under the impression that the minerals were gold and diamond. How would you avoid such a mistake?

10. Describe contact metamorphism of limestone.

11. Sketch two kinds of unconformity and explain why they are important.

12. Write clues for these cross-word puzzle words: drumlin, esker, whaleback, ox-bow.