Geography 12 Study Suggestions

Geog 12 Final Exam Review Suggestions (Final Exam is Wednesday June 20th at 8:45 – 11:00 in Room 311) _________________________________________________________ To Do: 1. Go over and correct any old tests, quizzes, vocabulary sheets, and worksheets that you were given throughout the year. 2. Come in and get extra help after school or come in during the exam week. 3. Get together with another student and quiz each other. 4. Check www.learnnowbc.ca for the online study guide. You may need your 9 digit number off any report card. 5. Go to the Ministry of Education Website at www.bced.gov.bc.ca/exams/search/ review the details of the course content, exam specs., and old practice exams. Note: If you’re just following links from the BC Ministry of Education site go to Kindergarten-Grade 12 then Support then Curric and Assessment 6. Look at definitions and examples of geologic features found in Canada at a very friendly website at http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/landscapes/provinces_e.php 7. Other? ________________________________________________ Good luck with your studying and on the exam. Mr. Robinson _______________________________________________________________ Notes From 2010 Unavailable Exam: OOOOOOOOOOOOO Renewable vs. Non-renewable energy forms Exploitation of resources Clear-cut logging Seismograph Five themes of geography(see notes from first day) Spheres of the earth(ex. Hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere …) Carbon cycle Albedo(reflectivity of a surface – usually as a %) Ozone depletion by chlorofluorocarbons(CFC’s) which leads to skin cancer, sunburns, . . . Westerly winds, trade winds, Types of precipitation and cloud formation: convection(rising warmer air cooling like at the equator), cyclonic(as around a low pressure area), orographic/relief (as air is forced up mountains like on the west coast of BC) Tornados- which types of air masses involved? . . . marine tropical(mT) and continental polar (cP) are meeting and causing extreme thunderstorm activity. Direction of weather map symbols Cross sections of cyclonic system Climate controls: relief, altitude, latitude, continentality vs maritimity, and aspect(which way is the slope facing?) Biomes and what plants and animals have done to adapt to them Xerophytes and sieozems (desert plants and soils) Climate graphs(yaaa – I know how you love them!) Overgrazing and fuel wood collection in Africa and the damage that does to their environ. Rock types and the rock cycle Asthenosphere(weak layer in the upper mantle) Hot spot volcanism( Hawaii has the classic examples) Shield volcanoes versu the other types(strato/composite and cinder cones) Converging plates makes compression therefore fold mountains(anticlines and synclines) or trust faults or reverse faults – not my fault) Diverging plates makes tension therefore rift valleys(grabens) and horsts(elevated block mountains) Sills, dykes, laccoliths, . . . Fault types Focus vs epicenter Talus/ scree – usually due to frost shattering above Solution (from dissolving) Aquifer Playa lakes Attrition (mutual wearing down of rock particles during transport by wind, water or ice so they get smaller, smoothed and rounded)(as opposed to: saltation,traction,suspension,corrosion, corrasion, plucking,and abrasion) Delta types Spits Longshore drift Undercutting of a river bank(outside of the meander) by hydraulic action and corrasion Drumlins – typical of continental glaciation + all other glacial features Fast flowing stream are younger, have greater gradient(steepness) so are in areas where the contour lines are closest together Fluvial (means river related)