Quiz Format

Preparation Strategy

1. Material covered or provided in class
   
   
   1. Lecture topics, class discussion of lab activities, and class discussion of articles from the literature:
   • Summary of discussion about Lab Activity #8
     
   • Questions Raised by Analyses of Data in Labs #1, 2, 4, 6, 7, and 11 [class notes, PDF file]
     (Note: some of these questions were addressed, at least partly, in Lab Activities #5, #7, and #8 and, at least in some sense, by the solution to Problem #3 and the solution to the Lab Problem on Seasonal Temperature Lags.)
     
     
   2. Lab Activities:
      
      • Lab Activity #8: Global Patterns of Temperature, Pressure, Wind, and Clouds
      • Lab Activity #11: Land/Water Contrasts
        • Specific Heat [PDF file]
        • Notes on Lab Activity #11 [PDF file]
        • Lab Problem: Seasonal Temperature Lags [PDF file] (see the solution)
      • Lab Activity #12: Feedback and Stability
        • Evaluating Feedback and Stability in Unbalanced (and Balanced) Budget Systems
        • Earth System Feedbacks
        • System Diagram #1
        • System Diagram #2
        • System Diagrams #3 & #5
        • System Diagram #4
        • System Diagram #6
        • System Diagram #7 (you'll have to work this one out yourself)
          
2. Pre-class Quizzes
   1. Pre-class Quiz #4: Heat Capacity and Specific Heat
   2. Pre-class Quiz #5: Feedback, Stability, and Disturbances in Systems
   3. Pre-class Quiz #6: Pleistocene Glaciations
      
      
3. Reading Assignments
   
   1. Reading #6
   2. Reading #8
      

Review the questions posed in lab activities, lecture, pre-class quizzes, and homework problems (and even in the reading questions, though that is more straight factual knowledge than problem-solving) and practice figuring out responses rather than trying solely to memorize the answers.