| Geoscience Education in the Mountain State:
CATS Applied Geology Telecourse, Spring 2000,
Quiz 2 (25 Points)
Due date is March 25.
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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.)
- fax to Tom Repine:
fax number: 304-594-2575
- 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
- handing a hard copy to your facilitator:
- 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 What can you tell about the angle or percent slope when you compare and contrast contour lines that are closely spaced
with those that are spaced further apart? The contour interval is 20' on the topographic map.
- +5 The geologic map for Monongalia and Preston counties includes the topographic feature Chestnut Ridge. The elevations
are about 2200' asl. As part of the geologic map, there are superimposed the contours of the Pittsburgh coal seam.
If the contour of the Pittsburgh seam is about 3400' on the crest of Chestnut Ridge, explain where you would find
the coal.
- +5 On the West Virginia state geologic map and on county geologic maps and special geology maps, the following
designations can be found: pC, C, O, S, D, M, P, P, and Q. What does each designation of units represent?
- +5 Samples of sand are shared by youngsters in a school in Dare County, North Carolina. Assume that you have a simple
plastic sieve set that we showed on air. What do you predict about the relative percentages of sand-silt-clay
for a sample of sand from: (a) a dune, (b) the beach on the ocean side at the high tide level, and (c) from the sound
side at high tide level? What about the organic content in each?
- +5 This is an extension from question 9. Consider now that you are going to look at only the 5 sand-sized fractions
(i.e. very coarse sand is 1 to 2 mm, coarse sand is 0.5 to 1 mm, medium sand is 0.25 to 0.50 mm, fine sand is 0.125 to
0.25 mm, and very fine sand is 0.0625 to 0.125 mm) by weight (percentages based on weight of total sample;
sand-silt-clay). What would you predict about the compare and contrast relationship between the following
environments: (a) sand dune, (b) open ocean beach, and (c) a sample of river/stream sand you collect close to
your school (in the central part of the channel)? Identify the name of the river/stream you will collect from.
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