Download study guide for mid term 6th grade

Study Guide for 6th grade mid term
1. Temperature and pressure increases as you increase the depth inside the Earth.
2. You find density but dividing mass over volume
3. The biosphere includes all living things, the geosphere include the solid earth,
the atmosphere includes the air surrounding the earth, and the hydrosphere
includes all the water, including the cryosphere which is the frozen water.
4. There is a stronger gravitational force between Earth and a dense object than
there is between Earth and a less dense object.
5. A peninsula is a landform that is almost completely surrounded by water and
thus it cannot be found on the ocean floor.
6. The Earth’s mantle is immediately below the crust.
7. Gravity pulled in the irregular bumps that stuck out from the newly formed
Earth.
8. The series of processes that change one type of rock into another type of rock is
called the rock cycle.
9. Mechanical weathering breaks rock by physical processes.
10. Weathering fades brightly colored signs, dries out wooden objects, and causes
shiny cars to become rusty.
11. Oxidation is chemical weathering.
12. Chemical weathering is faster in warm, wet places.
13. Constructive and destructive processes are continually reshaping Earth’s
surface.
14. Erosion is the transportation of materials. Deposition is the laying down, or
deposit, of materials.
15. Factors that affect the rate of erosion include weather, climate, shape of the
land, and type of rock.
16. Erosion removes less resilient rock and leaves the more resilient rock behind.
17. Talus is a pile or angular rocks from a rock slide, deposition.
18. The youngest crust is at the mid-ocean ridges.
19. A divergent plate boundary forms where 2 plates separate.
20. Pangaea is a super continent that broke over and slowly moved over time to
their current position.
21. Convection currents in the mantle is related to plate tectonic activity.
22. Mountains forms where two continents collide.
23. Transform plate boundary the plates slide past each other.
24. The Independent variable is changed by the Investigator. The Dependent
variable depends on the independent variable.
25. Scientific Law is true and states that an event will happen, Scientific theory
explains why things happen or is based on knowledge from many scientific
observations and investigations.
26. The earth is surrounded by the atmosphere.
27. Glaciers are agents of erosion when they drag trees and digs out ridges.
28. You should know how rocks are formed from igneous to sedimentary, from
metamorphic to igneous, from sedimentary to metamorphic, and from metamorphic
to sedimentary.
29 Mechanical Weathering I caused by animals, plants, ice wedging, and physical
processed.
30. Chemical Weathering is cause by acid rain, water dissolving minerals, and
oxidation.
31. Know the steps of Scientific Inquiry.
32. Be prepared to define, compare, and contrast chemical and mechanical
weathering and their causes.