ES 10 -Lectures 25 and 26

Partial Review of Course

David Sandwell

The course covers a wide range of material and one cannot be expected to know everything that was discussed in lectures. During these two review lectures, I tried to highlight things that will be on the exam and also point out things that will not be on the exam.

The table below shows where answers to the questions on the exam can be found in the book. This should serve as a study guide. There are many questions on plate tectonics so if you have time read This Dynamic Earth.

The asterisk (*) in the table below indicates topics covered during the in-class review sessions.

*Blue Planet Reading*
Study	page numbers	number of questions on exam
Lectures		6
Energy *	12-15	2
Solar system	29-35	1
Terrestrial planets*	35-38	6
Source of Sun's energy	49-51	1
Solar spectrum*	53-55	1
Earthquakes and earth interior*	71-89	7
Minerals and rocks	91-107	2
Magma and volcanoes	113-131	3
Plate Tectonics*	137-154	8
Earth's evolving crust	159-191	3
World Ocean*	195-216	5
Groundwater	236-241	1
Earth climate	361-385	1
Changing atmosphere*	477-487	2

Also, here is Greg's list of things you ought to know about earthquakes:

Basic Terms: know the definitions of these words
- Seismology, seismologist
- seismometer, seismograph, seismogram
- P-wave (aka primary or compressional wave)
- S-wave (aka secondary or shear wave)
- body waves (P & S) vs. surface waves
- focus/hypocenter, epicenter
Some Questions:
- What is an EQ?
- Why do they happen?
- Where do most EQs happen?
- Where do deep EQs happen?
- 3 types of seismic waves
- How do we know the outer core is liquid?
- EQ prediction impossible so far (as far as I know!)
- EQ ``forecasts'' can be done

David Sandwell
dsandwell@ucsd.edu