Final will be 120 points, consisting of multiple choice, true/false, and written answer questions.

Exam Time: 2:45 P.M., Thursday, Dec. 19 Exam Location: AB20 Weeks Hall

Understand the following terms:

• bauxite
• carrying capacity
• concentration
• concentration factor
• conservation tillage
• contact metamorphism
• crop rotation
• crystal settling
• disseminated
• energy
• energy efficiency
• flotation
• fossil fuels
• gravity separation
• heap-leaching
• high-grade
• hydrocarbons
• hydrothermal
• lateritic weathering
• low-grade
• marine evaporitese
• mineral deposit
• natural capital
• nega-watts
• nonmarine evaporites
• nonrenewable
• pegmatite
• per capita
• placer deposits
• regional metamorphism
• renewable
• reserves
• reservoir rocks
• salt domes
• secondary enrichment
• secondary recovery
• slant drilling
• smelting
• stratigraphic traps
• strip cropping
• sub-economic resource
• sustainable yield
• tailings
• terracing
• volcanogenic

Study the following topics as discussed in the text or web notes:

• Conditions necessary for the formation of various fossil fuels
• Environmental impacts of agriculture
• Environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels
• Environmental impacts of mining
• Environmental impacts of overpopulation
• Factors that control soil retention and erosion
• Factors that can extend reserve lifetimes
• Principal types of fossil fuels
• Principal types of alternative energy sources
• Dominant sources of energy and energy use (see Web lecture 24)
• How does the greenhouse effect work?
• What are the major atmospheric and greenhouse gases? Have they varied through time?
• What are the potential effects of global warming?

IMPORTANT - TREAT THE FOLLOWING WEB SITE LIKE A CHAPTER IN YOUR TEXT BOOK

http://www.crandonmine.com