Part A: Short-Answer Questions (20 points in total) Answer the following questions as succinctly as you can. None of your answers should be more than a couple of sentences (100 words or less). Please type your answers into the grey boxes. Explain why the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is important to weathering. 1. 2. What are the main products of weathering of igneous rocks? 3. Describe some of the ways that soil can be degraded if we don't take care to look after it. 4. How does the velocity of moving water affect the transportation of sedimentary particles? 5. What is chert made of, what is its typical source, and in what environment is it typically deposited? 6. Describe the tectonic origins of rift basins and foreland basins. 7. What is the typical origin and depositional environment of normal (ie, fining upward) graded bedding? 8. With respect to sedimentary rocks, what are the criteria for defining a formation? 9. Explain why mineral stability is important to metamorphism. 10. Describe the nature of foliation in gneiss. 11. Describe the geological environment in which gneiss forms. Part A: Short-Answer Questions (20 points in total) Answer the following questions as succinctly as you can. None of your answers should be more than a couple of sentences (100 words or less). Please type your answers into the grey boxes. Explain why the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is important to weathering. 1. 2. What are the main products of weathering of igneous rocks? 3. Describe some of the ways that soil can be degraded if we don't take care to look after it. 4. How does the velocity of moving water affect the transportation of sedimentary particles? 5. What is chert made of, what is its typical source, and in what environment is it typically deposited? 6. Describe the tectonic origins of rift basins and foreland basins. 7. What is the typical origin and depositional environment of normal (i.e., fining upward) graded bedding? 8. With respect to sedimentary rocks, what are the criteria for defining a formation? 9. Explain why mineral stability is important to metamorphism. 10. Describe the nature of foliation in gneiss. 11. Describe the geological environment in which gneiss forms.