Lecture 26: Final Exam Review

Today we'll go over the structure of the exam and we'll spend the class reviewing the content of the first two parts of the exam.







Note: The image is from gates of academe.



Update: Answers for the practise exam. Note that your answers might vary and still be correct. I know a few of you rephrased sentence structure and word choice. That's fine too. If you'd like to e-mail me your correction to be double-checked, please do send it along.

Remember too, my suggestion that in formal writing you include the apostrophe before 'phone. Let's not follow in Birmingham's footsteps where the queen's English is now the queens English!  "England's second-largest city  decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they're confusing and old-fashioned." Read more about the story here.

Earth's mid-ocean ridge system forms the longest feature on the Earth's surface. The system winds more than 70,000 km through all the major ocean basins like the seam on a baseball. The ridges range from 1,000 to 4,000 km wide. In a few places, such as Iceland, the mid-ocean ridge rises above the surface.