Geoscience Education in the Mountain State: CATS Environmental Geology Telecourse, Fall 2001 Quiz #2 (31 Points) Due date is November 19.

Quiz Instructions:

You may submit your quiz answers using one of the following four methods. (Regardless of the method you use, don't forget to include your name.)

1. fax to Dr. Behling:

         fax number:       304-293-6522
      

2. regular mail to Dr. Behling postmarked no later than the quiz due date:

            address:  Department of Geology and Geography
                      West Virginia University
                      P.O. Box 6300
                      Morgantown, WV  26506-6300
      

3. handing a hard copy to your facilitator:

4. electronically:
   Please read and follow the instructions shown below to submit your answers electronically.
   • Compose your answers in a word processor such as WordPerfect or Word.
   • Save a copy of your answers.
   • Click on the quiz e-mail submission address, rbehling@wvu.edu.
   • Cut and paste your answers from your word processor into the body of the e-mail box. You do not need to retype the questions. But, please number the answers to correspond to the question number.
   • Make sure that your e-mail address is clearly visible.
   • Send the e-mail.
   • Dr. Behling will confirm that your submission was successful with a short response.

QUIZ #2 :

6. (+5) If human activity is indeed causing global warming, speculate on the effect of this warming if Mother Nature is trying to send this planet into another ice age. (+3) An opinion question: Do you believe that there is clear and decisive evidence of global warming? If you do, what are the line(s) of evidence?

7. (+5) If there is global warming, the first effect in Antarctica might be that there is an increase in snow accumulation along coast lines. If the seasonal pack ice and the fixed pack ice breaks off and melts at sea, why would snow accumulation increase? (+3) Why is the high central region of Antarctica referred to as a "polar desert"?

8. (+5) Identify where you get your water from (the source: river, ground water, etc.). How about your school? Your community? What would be a likely source of ground water pollution in your community?

9. (+5) Why did the Cuyahoga River (Cleveland, Ohio) burn? One of the ways to deal with a crude oil spill in the ocean is to set it on fire. Why would this method NOT be appropriate in the case of the Exxon Valdez disaster a number of years back?

10. (+5) Choose a river in West Virginia and discuss the many ways in which we now use the resource; include a statement of its use in the past if it was different. You can choose any river, but let it be fairly substantial. (It should have two or three good-sized tributaries.) Is there a history of flooding along the river you chose? How have communities handled the potential of flooding?

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