Mastering Geology with Pearson eText for Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology

<div class="c-un-numbered-headers-and-contents-list__container"> <h3>Laboratory 1</h3> <h4>Filling Your Geoscience Toolbox</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 1.1 A View of Earth from Above </li> <li>ACTIVITY 1.2 Finding Latitude and Longitude or UTM Coordinates of a Point </li> <li>ACTIVITY 1.3 Plotting a Point on a Map Using UTM Coordinates </li> <li>ACTIVITY 1.4 Scaling, Density, and Earth’s Deep Interior </li> <li>ACTIVITY 1.5 Investigating Earth’s Highs and Lows </li> <li>ACTIVITY 1.6 Unit Conversions, Scientific Notation, and Rates </li> <li>ACTIVITY 1.7 Graphing and Interpreting Data </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 2</h3> <h4>Plate Tectonics</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 2.1 Plate Motion from Different Frames of Reference </li> <li>ACTIVITY 2.2 Plate Motion and the San Andreas Fault </li> <li>ACTIVITY 2.3 Measuring Plate Motion Using GPS </li> <li>ACTIVITY 2.4 Hotspots and Plate Motions </li> <li>ACTIVITY 2.5 How Earth’s Materials Deform </li> <li>ACTIVITY 2.6 Paleomagnetic Stripes and Seafloor Spreading </li> <li>ACTIVITY 2.7 Atlantic Seafloor Spreading </li> <li>ACTIVITY 2.8 Using Earthquakes to Identify Plate Boundaries </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 3</h3> <h4>Mineral Properties, Identification, and Uses</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 3.1 Mineral Luster, Diaphaneity, Streak, and Color </li> <li>ACTIVITY 3.2 Mineral Shape </li> <li>ACTIVITY 3.3 Determining the Relative Hardness of a Mineral </li> <li>ACTIVITY 3.4 Determining Specific Gravity </li> <li>ACTIVITY 3.5 Mineral Analysis, Identification, and Uses </li> <li>ACTIVITY 3.6 The Mineral Dependency Crisis </li> <li>ACTIVITY 3.7 Urban Ore </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 4</h3> <h4>Rock-Forming Processes and the Rock Cycle</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 4.1 Rock and the Rock Cycle </li> <li>ACTIVITY 4.2 Rock Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 4.3 What Are Rocks Made Of? </li> <li>ACTIVITY 4.4 Rock-Forming Minerals </li> <li>ACTIVITY 4.5 What Are Rock Texture and Fabric? </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 5</h3> <h4>Igneous Rocks and Processes</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 5.1 Igneous Textures </li> <li>ACTIVITY 5.2 Investigating Mineral Grain Size in Igneous Rock </li> <li>ACTIVITY 5.3 Glassy and Vesicular Textures of Igneous Rock </li> <li>ACTIVITY 5.4 Minerals That Form Igneous Rocks </li> <li>ACTIVITY 5.5 Estimate the Percentage of Mafic Minerals </li> <li>ACTIVITY 5.6 Estimate Mineral Composition of a Phaneritic Rock by Point Counting </li> <li>ACTIVITY 5.7 Analysis and Interpretation of Igneous Rock </li> <li>ACTIVITY 5.8 Tectonic Setting of Some Major Volcanic Rock Types </li> <li>ACTIVITY 5.9 Geologic History of Southeastern Pennsylvania </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 6</h3> <h4>Sedimentary Processes, Rocks, and Environments</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 6.1 Clastic Sediment </li> <li>ACTIVITY 6.2 Bioclastic Sediment and Coal </li> <li>ACTIVITY 6.3 Sedimentary Rock Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 6.4 Sediment from Source to Sink </li> <li>ACTIVITY 6.5 Sediment Analysis, Classification, and Interpretation </li> <li>ACTIVITY 6.6 Hand Sample Analysis and Interpretation </li> <li>ACTIVITY 6.7 Grand Canyon Outcrop Analysis and Interpretation </li> <li>ACTIVITY 6.8 Using the Present to Imagine the Past—Dogs to Dinosaurs </li> <li>ACTIVITY 6.9 Using the Present to Imagine the Past—Cape Cod to Kansas </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 7</h3> <h4>Metamorphic Rocks, Processes, and Resources</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 7.1 Metamorphic Rock Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 7.2 Minerals in Metamorphic Rock </li> <li>ACTIVITY 7.3 Metamorphic Rock Analysis and Interpretation </li> <li>ACTIVITY 7.4 Hand Sample Analysis, Classification, and Origin </li> <li>ACTIVITY 7.5 Metamorphic Grades and Facies </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 8</h3> <h4>Dating of Rocks, Fossils, and Geologic Events</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 8.1 Geologic Inquiry for Relative Dating </li> <li>ACTIVITY 8.2 Determining Sequence of Events in Geologic Cross-Sections </li> <li>ACTIVITY 8.3 Using Fossils to Date Rocks and Events </li> <li>ACTIVITY 8.4 Numerical Dating of Rocks and Fossils </li> <li>ACTIVITY 8.5 Infer Geologic History from a New Mexico Outcrop </li> <li>ACTIVITY 8.6 Investigating a Natural Cross-Section in the Grand Canyon </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 9</h3> <h4>Topographic Maps</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 9.1 Map and Google Earth Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 9.2 Map Locations, Distances, Directions, and Symbols </li> <li>ACTIVITY 9.3 Topographic Map Construction </li> <li>ACTIVITY 9.4 Topographic Map and Orthoimage Interpretation </li> <li>ACTIVITY 9.5 Relief and Gradient (Slope) Analysis </li> <li>ACTIVITY 9.6 Topographic Profile Construction </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 10</h3> <h4>Geologic Structures, Maps, and Block Diagrams</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 10.1 Map Contacts and Formations </li> <li>ACTIVITY 10.2 Geologic Structures Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 10.3 Fault Analysis Using Orthoimages </li> <li>ACTIVITY 10.4 Appalachian Mountains Geologic Map </li> <li>ACTIVITY 10.5 Cardboard Model Analysis and Interpretation </li> <li>ACTIVITY 10.6 Block Diagram Analysis and Interpretation </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 11</h3> <h4>Earthquake Hazards and Human Risks</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 11.1 Earthquake Hazards Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 11.2 How Seismic Waves Travel Through Earth </li> <li>ACTIVITY 11.3 Locate the Epicenter of an Earthquake </li> <li>ACTIVITY 11.4 San Andreas Fault Analysis at Wallace Creek </li> <li>ACTIVITY 11.5 New Madrid Seismic Zone </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 12</h3> <h4>Stream Processes, Geomorphology, and Hazards</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 12.1 Streamer Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 12.2 Introduction to Stream Processes and Landscapes </li> <li>ACTIVITY 12.3 A Mountain Stream </li> <li>ACTIVITY 12.4 Escarpments and Stream Terraces </li> <li>ACTIVITY 12.5 Meander Evolution on the Rio Grande </li> <li>ACTIVITY 12.6 Retreat of Niagara Falls </li> <li>ACTIVITY 12.7 Flood Hazard Mapping, Assessment, and Risk </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 13</h3> <h4>Groundwater Processes, Resources, and Risks</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 13.1 Groundwater Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 13.2 Where Is the Nasty Stuff Going? </li> <li>ACTIVITY 13.3 Using Data to Map the Flow of Groundwater </li> <li>ACTIVITY 13.4 Karst Processes and Topography </li> <li>ACTIVITY 13.5 Floridan Aquifer System </li> <li>ACTIVITY 13.6 Land Subsidence from Groundwater Withdrawal </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 14</h3> <h4>Glaciers and the Dynamic Cryosphere</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 14.1 The Cryosphere and Sea Ice </li> <li>ACTIVITY 14.2 Mountain Glaciers and Glacial Landforms </li> <li>ACTIVITY 14.3 Nisqually Glacier Response to Climate Change </li> <li>ACTIVITY 14.4 Glacier National Park Investigation </li> <li>ACTIVITY 14.5 Some Effects of Continental Glaciation </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 15</h3> <h4>Desert Landforms, Hazards, and Risks</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 15.1 Dryland Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 15.2 Sand Seas of Nebraska and the Arabian Peninsula </li> <li>ACTIVITY 15.3 Dryland Lakes of Utah </li> <li>ACTIVITY 15.4 Death Valley, California </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 16</h3> <h4>Coastal Processes, Landforms, Hazards, and Risks</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 16.1 Coastline Inquiry </li> <li>ACTIVITY 16.2 Introduction to Coastlines </li> <li>ACTIVITY 16.3 Coastline Modification at Ocean City, Maryland </li> <li>ACTIVITY 16.4 The Threat of Rising Seas </li> </ul> <h3>Laboratory 17</h3> <h4>Earth’s Dynamic Climate</h4> <ul> <li>ACTIVITY 17.1 How Does Rising Temperature Affect Sea Level? </li> <li>ACTIVITY 17.2 Melting Ice and Rising Sea Level </li> <li>ACTIVITY 17.3 Using Tide Gauge Data to Model Sea-Level Change </li> <li>ACTIVITY 17.4 Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere </li> <li>ACTIVITY 17.5 The Climate Record from Cores </li> <li>ACTIVITY 17.6 Local Effects of Sea-Level Rise </li> </ul> <h4 class="h5">Cardboard Models</h4> <h4 class="h5">GeoTools</h4> </div>