Nats-101 Sect. 49, 50  Final Exam Information

Exam Friday, May 16, from 11am-1pm in Room 308 Space Sciences
BRING YOUR CAT CARD FOR IDENTIFICATION
There will be somewhere around 80-100 multiple choice questions. We will use the following alphabet: A B C D E F
      About 40-50% of the final exam will be from material covered in the first half of semester, and the remainder will be material since the mid-term.  There is obvious overlap of much of the material between the 2 halves of the semester, but the first half was more devoted to how the Earth System functions, whereas the second half was focused more on specific global change problems (causes and consequences). 
       For the material from the first half of the semester, there is a high probability that questions you have already seen (quizzes and mid-term, perhaps in slightly modified form) will appear on final.  For the portion of the exam from the second half of the semester, the full breadth of material (whether on a prior quiz/sample quiz or not) is fair game.

What to Study:

     Review your quizzes, sample quizzes and mid-term exam
Review your lecture notes in conjunction with the list of highlights of topics covered in the lectures (available at the class web site); the web topic summary represents materials that were emphasized
Review your group activities
Review your readings
What everyone should have learned:

If this were like a driver's test where incorrectly identifying a sign results in failure of the whole test, I would consider the following topics to be the "signs":

1. Knowing the Greenhouse Effect and the “Enhanced” Greenhouse Effect

2. Understanding the Stratospheric Ozone problem

3. Knowing that the above 2 problems are largely independent, but there are small overlaps (THE OZONE HOLE IS NOT CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING!)

4. Being able to define the Tropospheric ozone problem and distinguishing it from the Stratospheric ozone problem

5. Solar and terrestrial radiation characteristics (as in GH Effect)

6. The carbon cycle and the current imbalance

7. Photosynthesis and how it might impact or be affected by GH effect, ozone, and acid rain problems

8. Knowing that there have been past global changes throughout Earth history, unrelated to human activities.

(The bad news for me is that this is not like a driver’s test so I will not be able to flunk you for not knowing these without other justification)

Office Hours:

We will attempt to meet all of our scheduled office hours until the final exam, but for next week, it will probably be best for you to contact us in advance by phone or e-mail to verify that we will be in when you would like to come over. 

Review Session:

If you have some last-minute, pent-up questions, I have arranged that we will our classroom (308 Space Sciences), 4:15-5:30 Thursday May 15.