Download Science 10 Provincial Exam Review Sheet Unit 1: Sustainability of

Science 10 Provincial Exam Review Sheet
Unit 1: Sustainability of Ecosystems
Chapter1
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What to do the terms abiotic, biome and ecosystem mean?
For each of the Canadian biomes (tundra, boreal forest, temperate deciduous forest, temperate rainforest, and grasslands)
identify distinctive plants, animals and characteristics of climate.
Identify factors that affect the distribution of the following biomes: tropical rainforests, temperate rainforests, temperate
deciduous forests, boreal forests, grassland, desert, tundra and polar ice.
How is that ecosystems with similar characteristics can exist in different geographical locations? Give an example.
What are some examples of biotic and abiotic elements?
What is the relationship between biotic and abiotic elements within ecosystems>(ex. abiotic: air, water, soil, light, biotic:
bacteria, plants, animals)
Chapter2
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Describe the relationship between producers and consumers using food chain food webs, and food pyramids.
Describe the predator- prey cycle
What is the role of decomposers in the food cycle?
What are tropic levels? What trophic levels are producers, primary, secondary and tertiary consumers in?
Describe and give examples for each of the three types of symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism and
parasitism.
Explain, using the diagram in the data booklet, the carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. Be sure to point out long and
short term stores, and how each of these elements is cycles through the ecosystem.
What is bioaccumulation?
What does ppm or parts per million mean?
What types of contaminants can bioaccumulation?
What sort of impacts can bioaccumulation have in an ecosystem?
How does bioaccumulation impact trophic levels? On which trophic levels is the effect largest? Why?
What is natural selection?
Chapter3
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What is ecological succession? There are two types, identify and describe each one.
What is a climax community?
What is adaptive radiation?
How do natural phenomena (like drought, fire, changes in temperature, flooding, tsunamis, insect infestations and volcanic
eruptions) impact ecosystems?
How do foreign species affect ecosystems? Give some examples that we gave seen in BC.
What are some examples of traditional ecological knowledge? How can traditional ecological knowledge affect biodiversity?
Unit 2 : Chemical Reactions and Radioactivity
Chapter4
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What are the three types of subatomic particles in the atom? Where are they located?
What is ionic bonding? Giving and example.
What is covalent bonding? Give an example.
Draw Bohr models and Lewis Dot diagrams for elements #1-20 on the periodic table,Inculde protons, neutrons and
electrons.
Draw Bohr models and Lewis Dot diagrams for ions of element #1-20.
Draw Bohr models and Lewis Dot diagrams for simple ionic and covalent compounds.(ex.NaCl,MgO,BaBr2,H2O,
CH4,NH3)
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What are valence electrons? How can you find the number of valence electron in an atom or ion?
Identify paired and unpaired electrons in atoms.
Identify lone pairs and bonding pairs in molecules (covalently bonded compounds).
Name ionically and covalently bonded compounds given the formula (including those with polyatomic ions)
Give the formula for ionically and covalently bonded compounds given the name(including those with polyatomic ions)
Chapter 5
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Using the tables in the data booklet, identify acids and base based on indicator results
What is pH scale? What is the pH of acid ? Bases?
What are acids? Bases? Salts? Make sure you mention chemical formula and properties of each.
What are the names and formula for some common acids?
What is the relative reactivity of element in akali metals, alkaline earth metals, halogens, and noble gas groups?
Where do we find metals and non-metals on the periodic table? How do we define them? Think of giving and taking
electrons.
What are organic compounds?
What are inorganic compounds?
Given a list of compounds(names, formula, or diagrams) identify which are organic and which are inorganic.
Chapter 6
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What is the law of conservation of mass?
Write and balance chemical question from formula, word equations, or descriptions of experiments.
Identify, give evidence for, predict the products of, and classify the following types of chemical reactions: synthesis,
decomposition, single and double replacement, neutralization, combustion.
How do factors like temperature, concentration, surface area, and presence of a catalyst affect reaction rate? Explain
your answers.
Chapter 7
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What is an isotope? Define this in terms of atomic and mass number.
What is the radioactive decay? How do alpha, beta and gamma decay change the nucleus of atoms?
What are alpha, beta and gamma particles?
What is half life? Be sure to mention how this concept relates to rates of radioactive decay.
What is fission and fusion?
Complete and balance nuclear equations to illustrate radioactive decay, fission and fusion.
Unit 3: motion
Chapter 8
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What is displacement?
What is time interval?
What is velocity?
What does the displacement time graph look like for a object traveling with uniform motion?(what does a positive,
negative and zero slope mean on a displacement time graph?)
Using the formula Vav = Δd/Δt , calculate average velocity, displacement, and time interval for an object in uniform
motion when given data.
How could you design an experiment to figure out the velocity of an object traveling with uniform motion?
Chapter 9
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What is acceleration? Be sure to define positive, negative and zero acceleration.
What are some examples of positive, negative and zero acceleration?(including: falling objects, accelerating from rest,
slowing down or stopping, uniform motion)
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Given initial velocity, final velocity and time interval, calculate acceleration using the formula a=delta v/delta t, where
delta v= vf - vi
Unit 4- Part 1: Energy Transfer in Natural Systems
Chapter 10
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What is the difference between heat, thermal energy and temperature?
How is the thermal energy transferred through conduction, convection and radiation? Be sure to mention kinetic
molecular theory in your explanation. Give an example of each type of energy transfer.
What are the sources of energy on earth? Describe each (including residual thermal energy from earth’s formation,
energy from radioactive decay and solar energy)
What is atmospheric pressure? How is it measured?
What kind of weather conditions accompany areas of high and low pressure in the atmosphere?
How does energy transfer influence atmospheric convection, atmospheric pressure and prevailing winds?(e.g. uneven
heating of land and water causing changes in the density if air, affecting prevailing winds)
Chapter 11
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How can natural phenomena like volcanic eruptions, the Coriolis effect, El Nino and La Nina affect climate?
How is the climate influenced by human activities?
What are some effects of climate change on natural systems? (e.g. shrinking of permafrost regions, melting of ice caps
etc.)
Unit 4 – Part 2: Plate Tectonics
Chapter 12
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Define the following terms: plate tectonics, plate boundary, earthquakes, trench, volcano, spreading ridge, subduction
zone, hot spot.
How do tectonic plates move
Label a diagram of the earth, including the following parts: crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, outer core, inner
core.
Describe the following tectonic boundaries, including: transform boundaries, divergent boundaries, convergent
boundaries ( oceanic-oceanic crust, oceanic-continental crust, and continental-continental crust)
What are the tectonic mapping symbols?
How does plate movement produce: epicenters and shallow to deep focus earthquakes, volcanism at subduction zones
and at spreading ridges, mountain ranges and mid ocean ridges, hot spot chains.
What are the sources of heat within the earth that produce mantle convection and hot spot activity?
How are mantle convection and ridges push and slab pull believed to contribute to plate motion?
What is the evidence for continental drift theory?
Using plate tectonic theory explain the distribution of volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain belts, trenches, mid-ocean
ridges, and rift valleys.
Using plate tectonic theory explain hot spot and subduction zone eruptions.
Using plate tectonic theory explain magnetic reversals and the age of rocks relative to spreading ridges.
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