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WVU - GEO - 331

1G331: The Nature and Adequacy of the Fossil RecordApproaches: Rarefaction Logarithmic Decay Model How many species might have been alive in the past? What percentage are fossilized? How many skeletonized species might have been alive in the past? What

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Biodiversity of the Fossil RecordGeology 331, PaleontologyLinnean Classification: ExampleKingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Mammalia Order Carnivora Family Felidae Genus Felis Species Felis catus, domestic cathttp:/scepticon.f

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Evolution and the Fossil RecordThe Study of EvolutionTwo domains: the present and the past The present: Biology Genetics Comparative Anatomy The past: Paleontology or Paleobiology Comparative Anatomy of Fossilized organismsNatural SelectionNatural sel

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Darwin and Natural SelectionOne of the most famous books of science.Voyage of HMS Beagle, 18311836Charles Darwin in 1837, age 28, after voyage of the BeagleAge 40Age 45Charles Darwin, age 60Darwin in 1879, age 70.Voyage of HMS Beagle, 1831-1836Th

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Evolution and the Fossil Record The Study of Evolution Two domains: the present and the past The present: Biology Genetics Comparative Anatomy The past: Paleontology or Paleobiology Comparative Anatomy of Fossilized organismsNatural SelectionNatural s

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Geologic Time ScaleGeology 331200420042004Geologic Map of the USA: Colors are geologic age

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Death from Outer Space, Did an Asteroid Impact Wipe out the Dinosaurs?The asteroid Gaspra - 7x7x12 milesA Gallery of AsteroidsWas it really an asteroid? We must have multiple working hypotheses!Dinosaurs forgot to board the ArkK/T BoundaryAge of Din

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Mass ExtinctionsGeology 331 PaleontologyThe Phanerozoic Eons are divided by Mass ExtinctionsHow have physical changes on the earth effected the evolutionary history of life during the Phanerozoic?Types of ExtinctionBackground Extinction when species

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Mass Extinctions most of the text from PPT lectureTypes of Extinction Background Extinction when species go extinct through natural selection during gradual environmental change or competition between species Mass Extinction when large numbers of species

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Principles of Historical GeologyGeology 331PrinciplesPrinciple of Superposition Principle of Original Horizontality Principle of Original Lateral Continuity Principle of Intrusive Relationships Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships Principle of Foss

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Absolute TimeRadiometric Dating: the source of the dates on the Geologic Time Scale Radiometric DatingActually a simple technique. Only two measurements are needed: 1. The parent:daughter ratio measured with a mass spectrometer. 2. The decay constant me

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Absolute TimeRadiometric Dating: the source of the dates on the Geologic Time ScaleRadiometric DatingActually a simple technique. Only two measurements are needed: 1. The parent:daughter ratio measured with a mass spectrometer. 2. The decay constant me

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1Geology 331Instructor: Dr. Thomas W. Kammer Office: 243 Brooks HallPALEONTOLOGYFall 2011Lab: 265 Brooks HallPhone: 304-293-9663email: Thomas.Kammer@mail.wvu.edu Personal Web Page: www.geo.wvu.edu/~kammer/welcome.htm Class Web Page: www.geo.wvu.edu

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1Geology 331: Questions for Test 1, Fall 2011All test questions will be taken from the following list, except that additional questions may be asked about diagrams or figures from assigned readings, PPT slides, and class handouts. Any of these questions

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Practice First Exam Fall 2010Student: _ 1. The primary concern of economics is the study of: A. Why human wants exist and what motivates them B. How to distribute goods and services according to human needs C. How best to allocate scarce resources among

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Practice Exam #2 Fall 2010Student: _ 1. Competitive firms cannot individually affect market price because: A. There is an infinite demand for their goods B. The market demand curve is flat or horizontal C. Their individual production is insignificant rel

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First Exam Fall 2010Version #1Student: _ 1. A market in which finished goods and services are exchanged is a: A. Financial market B. Intermediate-goods market C. Factor market D. Product marketFigure 3.1 - Shifts of supply and demand Answer the indicat

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Exam #2 Fall 2010Version #1Student: _ Figure 7.11. In Figure 7.1, the profit-maximizing level of output for a monopolist is: A. Between 3 and 4 units B. 2 units C. 3 units D. 4 units2. In Figure 7.1, if this industry is competitive, the profit-maximiz

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Chapter 8: The Labor MarketMcGrawHill/Irwin Copyright 2009 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Labor Supplyo The willingness and ability to work specific amounts of time at alternative wage rates in a given time period, ceteris parib

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Chapter 7: MonopolyMcGrawHill/Irwin Copyright 2009 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Monopoly Structure: Monopoly = Industryo The essence of market power is the ability to alter the price of a good or service. o A monopoly is one f

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Chapter 6: CompetitionMcGrawHill/Irwin Copyright 2009 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Market Structureo The number and relative size of firms in an industry. o Most real-world firms fall along a spectrum that stretches from the p

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Chapter 5: Supply DecisionsMcGrawHill/Irwin Copyright 2009 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Supplyo Supply is the ability and willingness to sell (produce) specific quantities of a good at alternative prices in a given time period

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Chapter 4: Consumer DemandMcGrawHill/Irwin Copyright 2009 by The McGrawHill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Patterns of Consumptiono About 70% of a household's budget is spent on housing, transportation, food, and health expenditures. o "Essential

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Aesthetics 1/18/2012 Aesthetics - Branch that studies art and beauty o But includes a good deal that isn't art nor beauty o Qualities might not just be of beauty, there are other characteristics o There are other aesthetic attributes as graceful, sublime,

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Aesthetics 1/25 Urmson Article - Independence of attributes o Can be mutually exclusive or not, dependent on connection o Relates aesthetics to "business associates and sporting association", as they can be mostly one but can be other too - There is commo

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Aesthetics 2/1 Representational theories of Art, Aristotle and Carrol Aristotle - Art= techne - Making or doing according to reasoning - Without reasoning, it is an accident - Differentiates from fine and performing arts in that those are Imitative Arts -

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Aesthetics 2/8 Expression and Form Romanticism - Early 19th century - Focus on imagination, as departed from the reason of the enlightenment - Expression of the subjective world - Emphasis on the individual, as the enlightenment focused on the social Expr

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Avian Biology 1/20/12 Tree of life - Bird thermoregulation evolved from its own common ancestor, not one shared with human beings - Archaeopteryx- oldest bird fossil (1861) o Same Feathers, bill, vertebral column, claws Long neck Assymetrical wings, close

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Avian 1/24 Objectives - Be able to know what distinguishes Aves from other vertebrates - Know how foil birds contribute to understanding of evolution, looking at structural and functional differences - Know role of limbs and bill in diversification - Dial

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Avian 1/27 Flight - 4 forces affecting it o Gravity o Lifting o Thrust o Drag - Wing generates most of lift and thrust, body adds drag (body can generate a tiny bit of lift) - Downstroke=/= upstroke in cockatiels o Upstroke is pulled in o Different for di

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Avian 1/31 Aerodynamics and Flight Morphology - Need to overcome drag and gravity - Alula helps redirect air - Induced drag o From pulling wing through air o Caused by redirection of air o Induced drag is proportional to amount of lift x angle of attack -

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Avian 2/3 *Lift is only the force perpendicular to the stream of airflow Morphology and Physiology - Describing wings- Aspect ratio = span/chord (length/width) - Aspect ratio correlates to predominant flight pattern - Determines how much thrust before aff

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Avian 2/7 Free stream flow - Ignore the air that isn't moving Migration - Different parts of the bird o Fused hand o Synsacrum- fused pelvis and spine Adapts into a flight cage, provides rigidity o Uncinate processes stabilize cage around body o Shoulder

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Avian 2/10 Migration - Not necessarily back and forth on same route- environment is different - Go north to next, go south to survive - There's a race to get to breeding grounds, less for overwintering grounds - Paleotropic paleoarctic (?) - New world to

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Psychology 1/23 Chapter 1 - Psych experimentation gathers data to backup beliefs and ideas o First 1870, awareness test - Common sense o Hindsight bias- look back thinking that the outcome could have been predicted "should have known that." o Overconfiden

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Psychology 1/30 Biology of the mind - 3 techniques of looking at brain activity o EEG Measures electrical waves o PET scans Measure glucose activity o MRI Size and shapes - Neurotransmitters NEUROTRANSMITTE FUNCTION/RELATED R TORESULT OF MALFUNCTIONSDRU

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Psychology 2/6 DSM - Diagnostics manual Depression - 5 or more for most of the day for at least 2 weeks o Loss of interest in activities once enjoyable o Increase or decrease of appetite o Insomnia or excessive sleeping o Movements: agitated (anxious) or

University of Florida - AST - 3019

3/17/10Active Galaxies and Related Objects Chapter 19Centaurus AWhat are Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)? Galaxies with a source of non-stellar emission arising in the nucleus (excessive UV, IR, radio and X-ray light) Central Black Hole accreting materia

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4/5/10Chapter21Introduction LemaitrewasthefirsttopointoutthatiftheUniverseisexpanding,itmusthavebeen muchhotteranddenserinthepast Thiserawasfirstcalledthebigbangby steadystatecosmologistFredHoyleasa termofridicule Nowallcosmologicalmodelswithan evolvi

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Chapter 21Introduction Lemaitre was the first to point outthat if the Universe is expanding, it must have been much hotter and denser in the past This era was first called the big bang by steady-state cosmologist Fred Hoyle as a term of ridicule Now al

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2/18/10Galaxy Clusters, Large Scale Structure and Hubble's LawChapter 18Galaxy Clusters Halfofallgalaxiesareinclusters(higherdensity;moreEsandS0;mass>few<mes10141015)orgroups(lessdense;moreSpandIrr;lessthan1014Msun) Clusterscontain100sto1000sofgravi

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3/24/10Chapter 20CosmologyThe Cosmological Principle : the universe is homogeneousand isotropic on sufficiently large scalesThe universe looks pretty much like this everywhere "walls" and "voids" are present but no larger structures are seen.It foll

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Chapter 20CosmologyThe Cosmological Principle : the universe is homogeneousand isotropic on sufficiently large scalesThe universe looks pretty much like this everywhere "walls" and "voids" are present but no larger structures are seen.It follows that

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2nd Exam Review Exam date & time: Tuesday, April 19th from 8:30am to 10:30amCosmology Cosmological principle Universal expansion v = Hod Newtonian Universe 3 possible cases (k, , q) -open, closed, borderline/marginally bound Critical density - = /crit GR

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1/14/10General RelativityChapter 8IntroductionGR is Einstein's theory of gravitation thatbuilds on the geometric concept of spacetime introduced in SR. Is there a more fundamental explanation of gravity than Newton's law? GR makes specific prediction

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1/26/10The Death of High Mass StarsChapter 11Recall that a solar mass star ends with a Carbon core, the final element to be produced via nuclear reactions. This carbon core remains after the planetary nebula phase as a white dwarf supported by electron

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The Death of High Mass StarsChapter 11Recall that a solar mass star ends with a Carbon core, the final element to be produced via nuclear reactions. This carbon core remains after the planetary nebula phase as a white dwarf supported by electron degener

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AST3019Homework #1Assigned: Jan 17, 2012Due: Jan 31, 20121. You and your friend carry identical meter sticks and clocks. Your friend goes on a fast moving train holding the meter stick parallel to the direction of motion. In the time it takes your clo

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AST3019Homework #2Assigned: Feb. 2, 2012Due: Feb. 161. Use Figure 16.6 in the textbook as a reference for the following problem. For material observed at a radial velocity vr along a line of sight at galactic longitude l, find an expression for the se

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How to Write a Lab ReportAST-3019Mark KeremedjievAs you can see from the Syllabus, this lab report is pretty important. If you look at the way science is done, it is the papers that live on. They provide a concrete and (hopefully) objective analysis of

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MidtermReview SpecialandGeneralRela4vity Constancyofspeedoflightimplica4onsforspaceand4me Timedila4onandlengthcontrac4onknowequa4ons(i.e.Lorentzfactor) DopplershiAknowgeneralequa4on Space4meintervaldifferenttypes EnergymomentumLorentztransforma4onEo=moc2

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2/2/10The Milky Way GalaxyChapter 16Overview & HistoryHistory of Galactic Astronomy 610 -Galileo discovered the Milky Way is comprised of many stars 1 755 - Immanuel Kant theorized that the galaxy has a planar 1 structure, some nebulae might actually

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2/9/10Normal GalaxiesChapter 17Galaxy ClassificationIn 1924, Edwin Hubble divided galaxies into different "classes" based on their appearance.Why begin here? ubble classification serves as the H basic language of the field. he morphological sequence

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Location Schedule Detail - WeeklyTime Period: Report Options: Next Schedule Period Short Name/Current/Scheduled EmployeesData Up to Date: Executed on: Printed for:2/10/2012 1:31:53 PM 2/10/2012 1:31:53 PM serber-ashley@aramark.comOrganization/Location

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1/11/10Special RelativityChapter 7Foundations Einstein'srevolution - rethink the meaning of space and time Published "Special Theory of Relativity" in 1905 followed by "General Theory" in 1916 which incorporates gravity He began with the postulate th