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EARTH SCIENCE
Final Study Guide Questions
LeGage-09
Listed below are review questions that address the concepts we have covered since September
You will have class time and homework time to answer the following questions. You are
responsible for everything that was covered during the semester.
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1. What is Earth Science?
2. How do you find volume? Meniscus? Use a balance?
3. What is Density? Formula?
Topographic Maps
1. What is map scale? How can it be expressed?
2. What does 1:250,000 mean?
3. What are contour lines? How are they used on a topographic map?
4. What is the contour interval? How can you determine it?
5. Be able to determine elevation of a point.
6. Be able to determine slope, distance between two points, direction a river flows using
contours.
7. Be able to identify hills, steep or flat areas.
8. Be able to determine latitude and longitude of a point.
9. What and where is the prime meridian? Equator, International dateline?
Geology
1. List mineral properties and definition
2. Which is harder 3 or 8?
3. Mineral does HCL react with? What does this tell you?
4. Define mineral.
5. What is the atomic number, atomic mass?
6. How do you find the # of neutrons, protons, electrons?
7. What is an atom? What are the parts of an atom? How are atoms related to minerals
8. What are bonds? What are ionic and covalent bonds?
9. What is a crystal?
10. The crust is made up of what to minerals (75%)
11. Define rock
12. What is the rock cycle? How does it work?
13. What is uniformitarianism (uniformity)? Who created it? Give examples
14. Define igneous. Sedimentary, metamorphic rocks.
15. What is banded? Foliated/nonfoliated? Clastic/nonclastic? Felsic/mafic, intrusive/extrusive
16. What rock is predominately found at the Earth's surface? In the crust?
17. Be able to label the layers of the Earth
18. Why is the outer core a liquid?
19. What is the Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Moho?
20. What is Pangea?
21. What is the continental drift? Who developed it? What evidence was available? When did
this happen?
22. What other evidence (from the 1960's) helped support Wegner's idea?
23. What are the three types of plate boundaries? Be able to label the 3 types and features of
each of the plate boundaries.
24. What is an earthquake?
25. What are the three types of faults?
26. What are P and S waves? Why are they important?
27. How do the Mercalli scale and the Richter scale differ?
Meterology
1. Be able to label the layers of the atmosphere and explain temperature profiles.
2. Identify conduction, radiation, and convection. Which method of heat transfer is most
Effective in heating the atmosphere.
4. What is temperature? How is it measured?
5. What is dew point?
6. What is dew? Frost?
7. How do clouds form?
8. Identify high, middle and low clouds
9. Explain the difference in how precipitation types form.
10. What is pressure? Why is pressure low or high?
11. Wind is the result of what?
12. Interpret a weather map.
13. What is the Coriolis Effect, Why does it occur
14. Be able to explain global wind patterns
15. Define Climate
16. Land vs. Sea Breeze
17. Evaporation vs. Condensation
Astronomy
1. What is a star? Whit dwarf, main sequence, giant, super-giant, Hertz-Sprung Russell diagram
2. Define black holes
3. What is a light year?
4. Define Astronomical Unit
5. What is the Big Bang theory, Pulsating Theory and Steady State of Continuous Creation
Theory?
6. Properties of the Sun
7. Describe parallax, Sunspots, sun's atmosphere.
8. What is the order of the planets. Know basic planet facts
9. Be familiar with moon and moon facts.
10. Be familiar with astronomical distances
Oceanography:
Characteristics of Oceans
Describe the Ocean Profiles
What is Salinity?
Name the different types of Beaches
Be familiar with Ocean Currents of the World
What is Turbidity?
What is the Composition of Seawater?
What is the MAR? and the EPR?