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TIME Tuesday, March 2nd; you will have the entire 75 minute period to devote to the quiz. POINTS a total of 100 points distributed as follows: 50 points...........25 multiple-choice @ 2 points each 30 points...........15 map items @ 2 points each 20 points...........2 short essay responses @ 10 pts. each FORMAT Quiz #1 is "closed-book" but you'll be allowed a crib sheet-- one side of a standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. TOPICS Important topics to review include the following: LOCATION: South America's absolute (e.g., latitude, longitude) and relative (e.g., vis-a-vis oceans and other continents) locations as a continent; countries, major physical features, important urban centers; TOPOGRAPHY: evolution of South America as a landmass over geologic time; ancient, recent connections to other major relief features of the present-day continent-- highlands, lowlands; associations of topographic features, including major mountain chains and oceanic trenches, with tectonic forces; structural relationships of basins and older highlands with similar features in Africa; important and relative elevations within the continent; HYDROGRAPHY: major water features of South America-- rivers, lakes, surrounding seas and oceans; absolute and relative flows within three major river systems--Amazon, Orinoco, La Plata--and relationships of same to regional climatic patterns; CLIMATE: major regions as mapped and as characterized and identified by descriptive labels (e.g., tropical wet-and- dry) and Koeppen classifications (e.g., Af, Cs); general seasonal patterns of temperatures and precipitation across the continent and their representation in climagraphs; VEGETATION: major regions as mapped and as characterized and identified by both general (e.g., tropical rainforest, savanna) and specific local (e.g., caatinga, chaco) labels; associations with and controls exercised by climate, by other (e.g., edaphic) factors; important genera or species including those valued as cultigens (i.e., domesticated plants as items of cultivation); richness, diversity of plants within different Neotropical biomes; FAUNA: richness, diversity of animals within different Neotropical faunal environments; radiation of Neotropical, Nearctic animals over recent geologic times. PHYSICAL HAZARDS AND CHALLENGES: Physical features-- topographic (e.g., barriers, high altitudes), tectonic (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions), climatic (e.g., droughts, El Niņo floods)--that have limited, thwarted, or interrupted effective human occupance; major historic events illustrating such hazards. Review all class handouts carefully. Look at your texts: review physical features on South America map; review opening chapters of Smithsonian Atlas, especially characterizations of Amazonian hydrography, climate, and vegetation; review Gade's Chapter 2 on "Lo Andino." Peruse returned assignments--EXERCISE #1 and MAP QUIZZES #1 and #2. Return to the SCHEDULE for GEOG 122B. Return to the SYLLABUS for GEOG 122B.