Your test will include:

•  a blank map of physiographic provinces for you to label;

•  multiple choice questions based on your texts and lecture notes

•  a set of definitions;

•  "mini-essay" questions that are handled by no more than three or four sentences.
 

Tips

You should be able to locate and identify mountain ranges and major peaks and rivers, and know anything distinctive about them as covered in your readings or in class.  It is also assumed that you have studied the maps in your atlas enough to recognize patterns in the physical landscape of the region, and are able to understand some of the reasons for these patterns.
 

Definitions:

aa
basalt
batholith
caldera
coulee
dike
erratic
fault
floodplain
glacier
hot spot
lahar
loess
moraine
pahoehoe
playa
pluton
pyroclastic flow
scarp
shield volcano
steptoe
stratovolcano
subduction
tsunami
watershed
 

Mini-essays:

Regarding  "exotic terranes", what are they, how did they form, and how might they have affected the land mass of the Pacific Northwest?

What is meant by subduction, and what are the causes and consequences of this process as it relates to the Pacific Northwest?

Where is Sackit Canyon and why do geologists find it interesting?

What formed the so-called "Touchet beds" and where are they located?

In terms of precipitation patterns and temperature variations, why is the climate on the east side so different from the west side of the Cascades?
 

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