Overview

During the final exam week, there are two exams. First, you'll take version 1 of the final online, which is made up of 8 individual quizzes. The exam, will be version 2 of the final exam, which again is made up of 8 individual quizzes, each assessing your knowledge of our course SLOs.

Below are the course SLOs. These represent what is most important for you to know for the final exams and should serve as your study guide. Prepare yourself as much as possible beforehand, to avoid wasting time searching for answers, as each final exam quiz has a time limit of 5 to 25 minutes. The purpose of summative assessments, like final exams, is for you to show what you've learned, but not how quickly you can find answers in your past assignments.

Instructions

Read each SLO below and reflect on how well you understand each, as you are expected to demonstrate as much mastery of each learning objective as possible. The better you can do this the higher you will score and the more you will improve your course grade. I've included some sample questions that I hope will help guide you in your studying.

Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

Students demonstrate the ability to use the scientific method
1. Question (to ask yourself): What are the steps and what are the differences between them? For example, how is a hypothesis different than a question or observation?
2. Create a scenario where you apply each step of the scientific method: observation, question, hypothesis, test/collect data, validate hypothesis, or reevaluate hypothesis.
Students can describe the geologic processes, the relative movement of plates, and the distinguishing landforms associated with each type of plate boundary
1. Questions: What are plates? What are plate boundaries? What's the relative movement of the plate on either side of each boundary?
2. Question: What are the processes happening along plate boundaries? For example, subduction happens along some convergent boundaries.
3. Question: What landforms are associated with each type of boundary?
Students can use physical properties to identify minerals and can explain mineral-forming processes
1. Question: What are the physical properties of minerals? For example, streak is the color of mineral when scratched across a streak plate.
Students can explain the rock cycle, differentiate among the three types of rocks, and use texture and composition to identify common rocks and their origins
1. Question: What are the differences among the three types of rocks?
2. Question: Can I identify different textures and origins? For example, some rocks have aphanitic textures meaning they formed from lava flows.
Students can describe the eruptive and physical characteristics of different types of volcanoes
1. Questions: What are the different types of volcanoes? Can I compare and contrast their physical characteristics and eruptive styles?
Students can describe the role weathering, mass wasting, and erosion play in shaping Earth’s surface and can provide and/or identify examples of each of these processes
1. Questions: In what ways are weathering, mass wasting, and erosion geologically destructive? Describe the role each plays in wearing down Earth's surface.
Students can relate tectonic stresses to plate boundaries, geologic structures, crustal deformation, and the building of mountains
1. Questions: What are the different stresses and what causes them? How do they affect the crust?
2. Questions: What are geologic structures and how do they relate to crustal deformation?
Students can describe the evolution of landforms and geologic structures in the context of constructive and/or destructive geologic processes

The final exam is divided into eight separate quizzes, each of which will count towards your final exam grade. The quiz scores for all eight will be averaged out to make your final exam grade for the class.

For each quiz, you have 1 attempt. All quizzes open at 12:01 AM and close at 11:59 PM, on Wednesday, May 15. No late work is accepted. Like module quizzes, the final exam quizzes are open notes, open books, open exercises, but NOT open internet, open classmates, open siblings, etc. Your academic integrity is expected.

Grading

Each quiz is worth 20 points and will be graded separately, with the total points for all quizzes together making up your final exam % for this class. The grading breakdown for each quiz:

18-20 points = Good Performance = A grade
14-17 = Satisfactory Performance = C-B grade
12-13 = Emergent Performance = D grade
0 = Not answered/answer unacceptable = F grade

Good luck!