no worries, just read the book, the lecture notes, your own notes and peruse the on line readings. Most important: what is significant and what is just paperfiller?

The test will have several multiple choice questions of which there are examples below. There will be two essay questions, again examples with answers below.

MC

1. The world population increases through

• Exponential growth
• Fixed number added per year
• Double numbers added each year
• Logarithmic growth based on the number of people living

2. The King Hubbert bell curve suggest that the world will run out of oil in about 40-50 years. Which of the following statements makes sense?

• We are now just still in the region on the curve where we discover slightly more oil every year than we use
• We still have lots of oil, we should not worry
• We are past the peak in the curve and discover less oil per year than we consume
• The biggest oil fields still have to be discovered

4. Vent faunas (e.g., the big worms) around submarine hot springs get their energy from

• photosynthesis
• sediment carried into the sea by rivers
• bacteria that oxidize volcanic H₂S
• bacteria that eat Iron

• the oceans and in subduction zones
• the continents and plume areas
• the continents and volcanic rift zones
• the Andes and Himalayas

6. What are 'exponential expiration times of energy' as used by us? The calculated time it takes that we have used up an energy resource by taking into account

• the current global energy demand and the increase in the per capita energy demand
• the growing per capita energy demand and the increase in population
• the current energy supply divided by the current energy demand
• estimates of increases in efficiency

• the amount of oil generated per year in nature
• the amount of carbon fixed in photosynthetic processes per year (taking respiration into account)
• the amount of Tasmanian devils conceived per year
• the amount of carbon fixed both by producers and consumers

Essay 1.  Give an overview what is needed for the formation oil and so where we tend to find it.

source rock, cooking, migration, reservoir, trap. Story about C preservation, conditions for cooking, expulsion, porous/permeable reservoir, some "trap" structure.

Essay 2. Give an overview of the six major terrestrial biomes on earth and what determines their distribution
Mainly influenced by temperature and rainfall, going from tundra, boreal forest, moderate forest, grassland to Chaparal, desert, and tropical forests.