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18 questions from SC.912.E.6.1-5 (earth structure, plate movement, rock cycle, energy)
27 questions from SC.912.E.7.1-9 (atmosphere, oceans, weather, climate)
5 questions from Nature of Science
5 questions from the first semester exam
5 questions that teachers will create based upon their individual class lessons
60 TOTAL (55 multiple choice + 5 teacher discretion)
Benchmark SC.912.E.6.1: Describe and differentiate the layers of the Earth and the interactions among
them.
1. Name the layers of the Earth.
2. Describe the composition of each of the Earth’s layers.
3. Explain the interactions that take place between the different layers of Earth (core and mantle, mantle,
crust, lithosphere and asthenosphere).
4. What is the energy source that drives the movement of the Earth’s plates?
Benchmark SC.912.E.6.2: Connect surface features to surface processes that are responsible for their
formation.
5. What is the difference between chemical and physical weathering?
6. What will occur when water and limestone interact?
7. What are the primary agents of physical erosion and how do they change the surface of Earth?
What is the relationship between volume of water passing through an area and the amount of erosion that
takes place?
8. Describe several ways in which rock layers can be dated.
9. Describe the steps of the rock cycle and the types of rocks that are created during each process.
Benchmark SC.912.E.6.3: Analyze the scientific theory of plate tectonics and identify related major
processes and features as a result of moving plates.
10. Explain Wegener’s theory of continental drift.
11. What is the difference between Wegener’s theory of continental drift and the current theory of plate
tectonics?
12. Describe the 4 types of interactions that can take place between tectonic plates.
13. Explain the different land features that result at each type of plate boundary.
Benchmark SC.912.E.6.4: Analyze how specific geologic processes and features are expressed in Florida and
elsewhere.
14. Explain how the process of erosion affects Florida’s beaches each year.
15. What actions could we take to prevent the erosion of Florida’s shorelines?
16. Understand the processes that create underground caves and Karst topography in Florida.
17. Understand the methods used to measure the age of Earth and its parts.
Benchmark SC.912.E.6.5: Describe the geologic development of the present day oceans and identify
commonly found features.
18. Explain the processes that create and destroy Earth’s crustal material.
19. Where would Earth’s crust be the oldest? The newest?
20. Identify common features found on the ocean floor (abyssal plain, continental shelf, continental slope,
guyot, mid-ocean ridge, seamount, trench)
Benchmark SC.912.E.7.1: Analyze the movement of matter and energy through the different
biogeochemical cycles, including water and carbon.
21. What gases make up our atmosphere?
22. Which of these gases are most important to living organisms? WHY?
23. What is the water cycle? What energy source drives the water cycle?
24. What is the carbon cycle?
25. Describe three ways that carbon dioxide is ADDED to the atmosphere.
26. Describe three ways that carbon dioxide is REMOVED from the atmosphere.
27. What happens to atmospheric temperatures when carbon dioxide levels increase? Decrease?
Benchmark SC.912.E.7.2: Analyze the causes of various kinds of surface and deep water motion within the
oceans and their impacts on the transfer of energy between the poles and the equator.
28. List several causes of deep water ocean currents.
32. List several causes of surface ocean currents.
33. Describe the location of the Gulf Stream current.
34. How does the Gulf Stream impact the climates of North America and northwestern Europe?
Benchmark SC.912.E.7.3: Differentiate and describe the various interactions among Earth systems,
including: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
35. List and give examples of the three ways that heat is transferred.
36. Describe the role(s) that conduction, convection, and radiation play in the heating of Earth’s atmosphere.
37. Give several examples of interactions between the following earth spheres:
 atmosphere and hydrosphere
 atmosphere and geosphere
 atmosphere and biosphere
Benchmark SC.912.E.7.4: Summarize the conditions that contribute to the climate of a geographic area,
including the relationships to lakes and oceans.
38. What is the difference between latitude and longitude? - between elevation and altitude?
39. Where are the lowest and highest latitudes?
40. How do climates vary based on the following factors?
 latitude
 elevation
 geographic location near a large body of water vs. within a continent away from water
 presence of snow, icecaps, glaciers, and clouds
41. How do the climates of the northern and southern hemispheres vary? Why?
Benchmark SC.912.E.7.5: Predict future weather conditions based on present observations and conceptual
models and recognize limitation and uncertainties of such predictions.
42. How does Earth’s rotation impact ocean and air currents?
43. What are the four main types of air masses?
44. What are the causes of stormy weather? - of fair weather?
Benchmark SC.912.E.7.6: Relate the formation of severe weather to the various physical factors.
45. How can wind speed and direction be predicted using a weather map?
46. What are the factors necessary for a hurricane to form? Describe the structure of a hurricane.
47. If Earth’s average temperature increases (global warming), what will be the impact on severe weather
events such as hurricanes?
Benchmark SC.912.E.7.7: Identify, analyze, and relate the internal (Earth system) and external
(astronomical) conditions that contribute to global climate change.
48. What is the relationship between greenhouse gases, global warming and global climate change?
49. Give specific examples of how changes in each of Earth’s systems (exosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere,
biosphere and cryosphere) can influence the climate of Earth.
Benchmark SC.912.E.7.9: Cite evidence that the ocean has had a significant influence on climate change by
absorbing, storing, and moving heat, carbon, and water.
50. Compare the influence of large land areas (continents) and large bodies of water (oceans) on weather and
climate. Compare the influence of altitude and latitude on weather and climate.
SC.912. N: Nature of Science Review
51. What is the difference between
 a test (independent) variable and an outcome (dependent) variable?
 reliable data and replicable data?
52. Explain the role of models in science; give examples of the benefits and limitations of specific models.
53. What is the difference between theories and laws? Cite specific examples.
a. A theory is a well-substantiated, well-supported, well-documented explanation for our
observations. i.e., Theory of Plate Tectonics, Big Bang Theory. There can be more than one
theory about a given scientific concept.
b. Laws are concise verbal or mathematical statement of a relationship. i.e., Kepler’s Laws,
Newton’s Laws, and the Law of Conservation of Energy.
54. Cite specific examples that show how scientific knowledge is durable because it is open to change.