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Geology 110 Preparation Questions

I will handout in class and list on the course web page a few questions for each lecture. These will serve as preparation for each class and be drawn from lectures and links. Please come to class with written answers to these questions, I may collect these on occasion as a quiz.

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For 14 January (Wednesday)

 1 - What is the scientific method and how does it operate? (see the text and explore web sites)

2 - What do you think is the most pressing environmental problem facing us today?

For 16 January (Friday)

1 - What is the Faint young Sun paradox?

2 - What is the age of the Earth and how do we know?

3 - What is the GAIA hypothesis?

4 - What is the approximate age of the earliest life on Earth?