GEOLOGY 230- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
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Current events: hurricane harvey- already has fatalities. Starting chapter 9: tides: tides- daily change in sea level. Periodic, but predictable: the largest tidal range in the world is in bay of fundy (17 meters, as the moon orbits the earth, both rotate around a common center of mass called the. Current events: people evacuating from hurricane harvey, diaspora- large group of displaced people migrate somewhere else, ex: katrina, 47% people displaced. Everest at 8850 meters: only 2. 5% of the ocean is illuminated by sunlight. Columbus: ptolemy (ad 150) compiles roman knowledge and revises circumference of the. Personal announcement to student(s): hello, my name is kassandra and i was just appointed as student note taker for this class. Current events: hurricane irma is expected to arrive this weekend in florida then head off into the. 9/6/17: not until 1820 that someone makes it all the way down to the antarctic- fabian.
