G 145 Student Outcomes

Week 2

G145 Learning Outcomes

 

What is the rock cycle?

 

Understand how environment and composition of magma affects which volcanic structure forms

 

What is the difference between felsic and mafic igneous rocks and where would each be created (what type of plate boundary)

 

What is the difference between a chemical and clastic sedimentary rock?

 

Be able to list the 4 different major terranes (sea floor, back arc basin, forearc basin and island arc volcanoes), know where they are relative to a subduction zone, and give some features of each

 

What is an exotic terrane and what are some of the features that give it its name?

 

What are the 9 physiographic regions of Oregon.

    Coast Range,  Klamath mountains, Willamette Valley, Cascades (Western and  High), Basin and Range, High Lava Plains, Blue mountains,   

     Columbia Plateau, Owyhee Uplands