Download Review Sheet-fossils, volcanoes, earthquakes etc

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Review Sheet Semester Test
This review sheet attempts to cover everything that may possibly show up on the
test, but in actuality, if we discussed it during this semester, then it is “fair game”
for the test, even if it does not show up on this review sheet.
1.
When did we land on the Moon for the first time? What was the name of the
mission?
2. What are highlands? What are the maria? What are the impact craters? What are
the ejecta?
3. What is regolith? How does regolith form?
4. Why do we only see one side of the moon, unless you are in a space shuttle flying
around on the back side?
5. How long does it take the moon to orbit Earth?
6. Why does the moon have craters, and the Earth does not?
7. What is the impact theory? Why do scientists think that the impact theory is the
correct one?
8. Why do we have phases of the moon? Be able to label a diagram of moon phases.
(nothing to write here…study the picture in your book)
9. Why do we have eclipses? Why don’t we have eclipses every month?
10. Be able to determine what type of eclipse it is, and label the umbra and penumbra.
(Draw both a solar eclipse here and a lunar eclipse, and draw/shade in the umbra
and penumbra, then label the umbra/penumbra)
11. Earth’s axis is tilted ________ degrees relative to the ecliptic.
12. Why do we have seasons? If shown a diagram of Earth’s orbit around the sun, be
able to label the seasons. (nothing to write here…)
Review Sheet-Test over the Sun, solar system, galaxies, etc.
1. What are the three layers of the sun’s interior? What part is responsible for
fusion?
2. What are the three layers of the Sun’s atmosphere? Be able to describe them
briefly, such as lowest layer, the visible surface, etc…
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3. What is the solar wind? What happens when the solar wind gets trapped in the
Van Allen Belts?
4. What are sunspots? Why do they happen? (hint: magnetic fields)
5. What are solar flares and solar prominences?
6. What is fusion?
7. What are asteroids? Meteroids? Meteors? Meteorites?
8. What is the “Belt” between Mars and Jupiter, and what do most scientists say
prevented it from becoming a planet?
9. Explain the sun’s life cycle, and what will happen to it about 5 billion years down
the road.
10. Explain the life cycle of a star that is 8-20 times the size of our sun.
11. Explain the life cycle of a star that is 20 times the size of our sun.
12. What is a neutron star?
13. What is a black hole?
14. What is a white dwarf?
15. What is a supernova?
16. What is a red giant?
17. What is the H-R diagram and the main sequence?
18. What is a galaxy?
19. What is the Milky Way?
20. About how many other stars are in our galaxy besides our Sun?
21. What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
22. Know the four types of galaxies and if shown drawings, be able to label which
type it is.
23. What is cosmology?
24. What is the Big Bang theory?
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WEATHER (parts of chapters 12-14)
1. What is weather? What is climate?
2. What is meteorology?
3. Draw and/or label the water cycle.
4. What is condensation? Evaporation? Transpiration?
5. What is a Watch? What is a warning?
6. What makes a thunderstorm severe?
7. If shown a picture of a cumulonimbus cloud, be able to label some of its parts. (like the
anvil, overshooting top, wall cloud, etc.) (nothing to write here….)
8. What is a hurricane? How does it form?
9. Explain some of the things that “went wrong” with Hurricane Katrina.
10. What is Climate Change? What are some things that are predicted to happen when the
Earth’s temp gets warmer?
plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes etc. test
(chapters 17, 18 & 19)
1. What is plate tectonics?
2. What did Alfred Wegener call his clumped-together land mass?
3. How does plate tectonics work? -what causes them to move?
4. Name the three types of boundaries and define them.
5. There are three types of convergent boundaries-name them and say what they
cause (mountains or trenches)?
6. What kind of boundary is also called a fault?
7. What is a volcano?
8. What are the three types of magma?
9. What are the three types of volcanoes?
10. What is a caldera?
11. What is tephra?
12. What is a pyroclastic flow?
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13. What is an earthquake?
14. What causes earthquakes?
15. What are the three types of stress?
16. What are seismic waves?
17. Draw an example of seismic waves being captured on a seismometer and explain
whether it is a big or little earthquake based on the size of the squiggles.
18. How are a focus and epicenter related?
19. What is the Richter scale?
20. At what point on the Richter scale is the earthquake probably felt? At what point
does it do destructive damage?