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Dwnload Full Investigations in Environmental Geology 3rd Edition Foley Solutions Manual PDF
Dwnload Full Investigations in Environmental Geology 3rd Edition Foley Solutions Manual PDF
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Investigations In Environmental
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QUESTIONS 3, PART A
1. What is the SI unit for measuring:
a. Distance? meter (m)
b. Temperature? degrees Kelvin (K)
2. Why might geoscientists not use SI Units in working with some maps produced in the United States?
Most of the maps produced in the USA in the past used English units (i.e., feet, miles).
3. Give the value in words and numbers for the following numbers, which are given in scientific notation (the
first is given for you).
b. 4,120 four thousand one hundred and twenty
c. 5,800,000,000 five billion eight hundred million
d. 2,200,000,000,000,000 two quadrillion two hundred trillion
e. 100,000 one hundred thousand
4. Consult Appendix I to determine the value and name for the following prefixes in the International System of
Units:
9
b. 10 giga
6
c. 10 mega
3
d. 10 kilo
-2
e. 10 centi
-3
f. 10 milli
-6
g. 10 micro
-9
h. 10 nano
5. Complete the blanks in the columns to provide the name and equivalent values in meters.
-2
b. 5.5 centimeters = 5.5 x 10 meters
3
c. 5.5 kilometers = 5.5 x 10 meters
d. 1 millimeter = 0.001 meter
6. Write in long form and scientific notation the equivalent of 4.7 Gyr?
9
4,700,000,000 years, 4.7 x 10 years
8. Complete the sentence. The number of significant figures in a number is an indication of the __________;
the more significant figures, the more __________ is the value.
precision precise
2. You had a 10 percent deduction in the price of a book that had a list price of $22.50. What was your cost,
before taxes? (Show how you set up the relationship.)
10% of $22.50 = 10/100 x $22.50 = $2.25
$22.50 - 2.25 = $20.25 is your cost
Or 90/100 x $22.59 = $20.25
3. Ozone levels increased from 250 to 275; what was the percentage increase? (Show how you set up the
relationship.)
275
-250
= 25 point increase from the original of 250. Therefore 25/250 x 100 = 10% increase.
4. Ozone levels decreased from 400 to 300; what was the percentage decline? (Show your work.)
400 – 300 = 100 points of change. The decrease as a percentage is:
100 x 100 = 25%
400
5. What is the slope between two points on a map, B and S, given that B has an elevation of 150 feet and S has
an elevation of 100 feet above sea level and they are 1 mile apart?
a. In feet per mile?
50 ft/mile or 50 feet per mile
c. In percent?
50 ft x 100% = 0.95% or 0.9%
5280 ft
d. In degrees?
Take the arc tan (or inverse tan) of 50/5280 = 0.54°
b. Slope of 50%?
50 = 0.5
100
a. 12 miles to feet
12 miles x 5280 ft = 63,360 ft
1 mile
b. 15 m to cm
15 m x 100 cm = 1500 cm
1m
c. 10 km to miles
10 km x 1 mile = 6.2 miles
1.609 km
d. 5 miles to kilometers
5 miles x 1 km = 8.1 km
0.621 mile
3
e. 12 cubic feet/sec to m /sec
3 3 3
12 ft x 0.028 m = 0.34m /sec
3
1 sec ft
QUESTIONS 3, PART C
1. On the two types of graph paper provided here, plot the number of landslides by year, using the data in Table
3.1. Add captions.
See Figures X and Y below.
2. From the data in Table 3.1, determine the following for the number of landslides per year.
a. Mean (the arithmetic average; divide total number of landslides by number of years)
20
b. Median (the middle value; with equal number of values above and below)
12
c. Mode (the most common; what value occurred most frequently)
10
Note: The plots and calculations could also be done using Excel.
“‘Even now,’ he adds, ‘after waiting for the Cafila, which will be
immense, near 400 men, and, they say, 2,000 camels, I am not even
going with it. I should, by all accounts, as a Christian and a doctor,
be worried to death. I go straight from this to Arowan, never touching
the Cafila route at all; we shall not see a single tent. There are some
wells, known only to two or three of the guides. We take five naggas
(she camels) for milk, the five men, and Mohammed El Abd, some
zimēta (barley meal). I take the biscuit for Abou and self; each
carries a skin of water, to be touched only if the milk fails: thirty days
to bring us to Arowan, and five more to Timbuctoo.’
“I have made the above extracts to assure you that the
arrangements were made, and Mr. Davidson ready to start at a
moment’s notice, and that in the course of two or three days I hope
to have the pleasure to acquaint you of his having proceeded on his
journey. Once away from Wád Nún, and I have every and the fullest
confidence of his efforts being crowned with success.
“I have the honour to be, Sir,
“Your most obedient servant,
“Wm. Willshire.”
“P.S.—I open this letter to add, I have received a letter from Mr.
Davidson, dated Saturday, the 5th inst., who appears in high spirits,
and writes,—
“‘The start is to be on Monday, although I do not go on that day;
everything is now packed up, and placed ready to be put on the
camels, with which Abou starts at day-break on Monday. I am to be
left here, as if having sent him on. Mohammed El Abd remains
behind. On Wednesday or Thursday, according to the distance made
by the camels on the first day, we start on horseback, accompanied
by Beyrock and about six horsemen, and are to make Yeisst, if
possible, in one day. Here I leave the district of Wadnoon. And to this
place is three days’ journey for loaded camels. I here leave my horse
and mount my camel, and we push on to the tents.’
“Mr. Davidson did not start on a sudden, on the 3d inst., as stated
to me by a courier, who brought me a letter from him of that date,
and which I reported in a letter I had the honour to address to his
Majesty’s secretary of state, Viscount Palmerston, on the 8th inst.,
and which you will oblige me by correcting and making known to his
lordship.
“Your most obedient servant,
“W. W.”
The following extracts from Mr. Willshire’s letters will give all the
intelligence received respecting the sequel of Mr. Davidson’s
expedition:—
Society of London:—
“To the Noble Prince, exalted by the Lord, Mulai Abd Errachnan ben
Hussein, whom God protect.
“An English gentleman having arrived at Gibraltar within a few
days past, as bearer of a letter, which he is charged to deliver to his
Imperial Majesty, from the King my most gracious sovereign, may it
please your Imperial Majesty to deign to cause me to be informed
when and where it may be convenient for your Imperial Majesty to
receive the bearer of the royal letter.
“Peace—this 20th day of September, in the year of Christ 1835
(26th Joomad the 1st, 1251).
“Edw. Drummond Hay,
“H. B. M.’s Agent and Consul-General in Morocco.”
“In the name of the merciful God, and there is no power or
strength but in God the high and excellent.
“To the faithful employed Drummond Hay, Consul for the English
nation—this premised—
“Your letter has reached our presence, exalted of God, regarding
the gentleman who arrived at Gibraltar with a letter from the Pre-
eminent of your nation; in consequence whereof, if he please to
deliver the letter to our employed, the kaid ............[202] Essedy, for the
purpose of being forwarded to our presence, exalted of God, he may
do so; but if he wish to bear it himself, he is to proceed to Swerrah
by sea, and thence he may come to our high presence, since the
voyage by sea is more convenient than that by land, and the journey
from the said port to our presence is short.
“Peace—11th Joomad the 2d, 1251 (4th October, 1835).
THE END.
LONDON:
Printed by J. L. Cox and Sons, 75, Great Queen Street,
Lincoln’s-Inn Fields.
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