Geoscience Education in the Mountain State,
CATS Environmental Science, Fall 1999:
Quiz 2 (25 Points)--Due November 1 by 6:00 pm

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 Tom Repine,

         fax number:  304-594-2575
      

2. regular mail to Tom Repine postmarked no later than the quiz due date,

            address:  West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey
                      Mont Chateau Research Center
                      P.O. Box 879
                      Morgantown, WV  26507-0879
      

3. handing a hard copy to your facilitator, or

4. electronically.
   Please note that the electronic format has changed. The on-line form will no longer be used. 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, repine@wvgs.wvnet.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.
   • Tom will confirm that your submission was successful with a short response.

Quiz Questions:

5. +5 Identify one location in your town where undercutting or overloading has led to a slope stability problem. Identify the material (rock or unconsolidated materials) and the remediation (solution) to stabilize the slope. Additionally, list all the problems of subsidence that you know of in your part of the county.

6. +5 Identify your largest local river and detail all (any) changes that have been done to the free flow or to the channel form. Recall that placing rip-rap on the outer bends of meanders or the channelization of the stream is a substantial change!

7. +5 Choose any location in West Virginia and share your opinion as to the use and effectiveness of damming a waterway. You may choose a large example: locks and dams along the Ohio River; you may choose a very local, small example such as a fishing pond. The challenge is that you are to evaluate the results including any water quality issues you may know of.

8. +5 Tour your immediate area around your school and complete an inventory of the different solutions for slope instability. Remember that even a 2-foot cut into unconsolidated materials may require a solution. I ask that you sketch each example for your own records (I realize that the sketches can not be shared through e-mail). In a short paragraph, identify the one solution that seems to be most efficient and at the same time aesthetically attractive.

9. +5 To complete question number 8 above, in a short paragraph, identify the one solution that in your opinion seems to fail because it does not hold the slope or because it is "ugly as sin."

Page last revised: October 1999

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            Cheat Lake exit off I-68
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            Morgantown, WV  26507-0879
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