I've gone through our text and my question bank and found the chapter and subsection within the book which contains the relevant material to answer that question. There are about 10 questions on a typical quiz, so you'll see below for each quiz a list of ~10 section titles, one line for each question. This is so amazingly helpful - Now you can really focus your studying time!
In some cases, the relevant material is in two sections; you'll then see two lines for that question, one of them indented. For most questions, the answer to the question is given explicitly in the section listed. But in some cases, the text doesn't address it well, or at all. In this case, you'll see an "L" out in front. That means consult your notes from my "L"ecture on that material. In some cases, the material spreads through the entire chapter, not a single section within that chapter. In other cases, the section contains all the basic facts, but you'll need to do some reasoning to deduce an answer not given explicitly. In these cases, you'll see an "R" (for "reasoning required").
So, like all
good exams, there's a mix of easy, hard, factoid, and reasoning
questions. There's even a few extra credit
questions floating around in my test bank. If you get one, there's no mark-off
if you get it wrong, and you get a bonus if you get it right.
Web Readings: Under Quiz #1, note Chapter 0 sections (e.g. 0.1 "Natural Selection and Development of Mind") are not in the textbook, but from my own website page, and "On Teaching" (labelled with a "T").
For our lecture on Earth Climate Change, especially review the PowerPoint I gave in class; in the study guide below it's labelled "Chapter 30".
Quiz #1
0.3 The Real World
0.5 Steps of the Scientific Method
0.1 Natural Selection & Development of Mind
0.7 Pseudo-Science
L 0.9 Occam's Razor
T Web essay "On Teaching"
2.3b What causes eclipses?
L 2.2a What causes the seasons?
L 2.2a What causes the seasons?
R 2.1c Why do the constellations seen depend on latitude, time of year?
Quiz #2
2.4b Why ancient Greeks rejected real explanation of planetary motion?
& 3.2b How did the Greeks explain planetary motion?
3.3a How did Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler challenge Earth-centered model?
3.3c How did Galileo solidify the Copernican Revolution?
R 3.3c How did Galileo solidify the Copernican Revolution?
2.4b Why ancient Greeks rejected real explanation of planetary motion?
& 3.2b How did the Greeks explain planetary motion?
R 3.3c How did Galileo solidify the Copernican Revolution?
4.5b How does gravity cause tides?
& 4.4 The Universal Law of Gravitation
4.3b What keeps a planet rotating and orbiting the sun?
4.5a How do gravity & energy allow us to understand orbits?
R 4.4b How does Newton's law of gravity extend Kepler's Laws?
& 4.1b How is mass different from weight?
Quiz #3
5.4c How does light tell us temperatures?
5.5a How does light tell us the speed of a distant object?
5.4c How does light tell us temperatures?
L 5.4b How does light tell us what things are made of?
L 5.3c How is energy stored in atoms?
5.2a What is light?
L 6.3a How does earth's atmosphere affect ground observations?
6.3b Why do we put telescopes in space?
6.4a How do we observe invisible light?
Quiz #4
7.2a What features of our solar system clue us to how it formed?
7.2a What features of our solar system clue us to how it formed?
8.3c How did the Jovian planets form?
R 8 Formation of the Solar System
8.4c How do we explain the existence of our moon?
L 9.3a What geological processes shaped our Moon?
9.4 Geology of Mars
L 9.6b How is Earth's surface shaped by plate tectonics?
10.2d How does a planet gain or lose atmospheric gases?
10.6a How did Earth's atmosphere end up so different?
10.1b How does the greenhouse effect warm a planet?
Quiz #5
L 30.17 Coal burning produces smog aerosols which provide a cooling force to Earth climate
L 30.25 Jevons' Paradox; increasing energy efficiency INCREASES global energy consumption
L 30.12 Princeton researchers found Congress listens only to...who? you and me, or Economic Elites?
L 30.20 Need 11 sq mi/day of new solar PV just to keep CO2 emission rates constant
11.3b How do other Jovian ring systems compare to Saturn's?
11.2b Why are Jupiter's Galilean moons so geologically active?
& 24.2b Could there be life on Europa or other Jovian moons?
11.1c What are Jovian planets like on the inside?
11.2b Why are Jupiter's Galilean moons so geologically active?
L 12 Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets
12.2a What are comets like?
12.1b Why is there an asteroid belt?
Quiz #6
13.1 Detecting Extrasolar Planets
13.3b Do we need to modify our theory of solar system formation?
13.1b How do we detect planets around other stars?
L 14.3a What causes solar activity?
14.2b How does the energy from fusion get out of the sun?
14.3a What causes solar activity?
24.1c What are the necessities of life?
L 10.6c How is human activity changing our planet?
L 24 Life in the Universe
24.1b How did life arise on Earth?
Final Exam Study Guide
L 0 Chapter 0: Science and Clear Thinking
0.2 Using this in Learning
T Web essay "On Teaching"
R 2 Discovering the Universe for Yourself
2.1c Why do the constellations seen depend on latitude, time of year?
3.3b What are Kepler's 3 laws of motion?
R 3.2c Eratosthenes measures the earth
L 4.2b What are Newton's three laws of motion?
R 4.4a What determines the strength of gravity?
R 4.5b How does gravity cause tides?
4.5b How does gravity cause tides?
& 3.3b What are Kepler's 3 laws of motion?
L 5 Light and Matter
5.5a How does light tell us the speed of a distant object?
5.2a What is light?
6.2c What do astronomers do with telescopes?
6.1b How do we record images?
7.2a What features of our solar system clue us to how it formed?
7.2a What features of our solar system clue us to how it formed?
8.1b What theory best explains the features of our solar system?
8.3c How did the Jovian planets form?
8.5b When did the planets form?
9.3b What geological processes shaped Mercury?
& 9.5a What are the major geological features of Venus?
9.1c What causes geological activity?
10.1c Why do atmospheric properties vary with altitude?
10.6a How did Earth's atmosphere end up so different?
10.1b How does the greenhouse effect warm a planet?
10.4b Why did Mars change?
L 30.21 Even ending all direct human CO2, permafrost thaw still adds more CO2
L 30.14 Know the future climate of California for "business as usual"
L 30.23 The two safety criteria for GeoEng: no hysteresis, minimal surface cha
11.1d What is the weather like on Jovian planets?
11.1a Are Jovian planets all alike?
11.3a What are Saturn's rings like?
12.3a How big can a comet be?
L 12 Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets
12.4d How do the Jovian planets affect impact rates?
L 12.2a What are comets like?
13.3a Can we explain the surprising orbits of extrasolar planets?
13.1b How do we detect planets around other stars?
L 13 Other Planetary Systems
13.1b How do we detect planets around other stars?
14.3a What causes solar activity?
14.2c How do we know what is happening inside the sun?
14.3c How does solar activity vary with time?
R 14.2a How does nuclear fusion occur in the Sun?
24.1b How did life arise on Earth?
L 24.4 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
L 24.5b Where are the aliens?
L 24 Life in the Universe