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Final Exam Review
Vocabulary
Section
Review Day 1
1. An _______ is the smallest particle of
matter.
2. In a _________ front the position of the
front does not move.
3. The continuous processes that cause
rocks to change make up the ______.
4. _________ is the warming of the upper
atmosphere.
5. __________ is the air portion of Earth.
1. __________ is a meteoroid that actually
reaches Earth.
2. ________ clouds are best described as sheets
or layers that cover much or all of the sky.
3. ________ is the portion of Earth that is able to
support life.
4. ________ is the layer of the geosphere where
mining occurs.
5. ________ is a layer of organic matter that
holds moisture in the soil.
Review Day 2
1. A _______ occurs when the moon moves in a
line directly between Earth and the Sun, it
causing a dark shadow on Earth.
2. _____ is the power that falling water
generates.
3. _______ are centers of high pressure.
4. A _________ forms when warm air moves into
an area formerly covered by cooler air.
5. _______ organisms like algae that undergo
photosynthesis.
1. ______ is a type of motion that occurs
when each planet appears to stop,
reverse direction for a time, and then
resume and eastward motion.
2. _______ is a mixture of mineral particles
or organic particles from living and
decaying organisms.
3. _______ trees that shed its leaves during
a particular season of the year.
4. _______ is the careful use of resources.
5. _______ is simply the pressure exerted
by the weight of the air above.
Review Day 3
1. A ______ is a device used for measuring air
pressure.
2. The _____ is the highest layer of the
atmosphere (increased temps.).
3. ______ is the ratio of the air’s actual watervapor content compared with the amount of
water vapor air can hold at that temp. &
pressure.
4. A _____ is an animal that bears live young and
maintains a steady body temp.
5. Relative humidity is commonly measured by
using a _________.
1. During _____ the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees
AWAY from the sun.
2. ______ is a biome with a canopy of evergreen,
broadleaf trees supported with an abundance
of rainfall.
3. A _____ is a consumer that must go out and
get its food.
4. ____ include all organisms-algae, animals, and
bacteria-that drift with ocean currents.
5. Above and to the right of the main sequence in
the H-R diagram lies a group of very bright
stars called ____.
Review Day 4
1. _____ is the collecting and processing of using items
so they can be made into new products.
2. _____ rocks that form from the cooling and hardening
of magma.
3. _____ are huge cloudlike structures consisting of
chromospheric gases.
4. _____ is a network of food chains representing the
feeding relationships among organisms.
5. _____ means that the forces and processes that we
observe today have been at work for a very long time.
1. During ____ the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees
TOWARD the sun.
2. _____ is the water portion of Earth.
3. _____ are groups of stars, dust, and gases
held together by gravity.
4. _____ is the heavy inner sphere of Earth
(contains magma).
5. The ______ states that in an undeformed
sequence of sedimentary rocks, each bed is
older that the one above it and younger that the
one below it.
Review Day 5
1. September 22 or 23 is the date for which
______ occurs.
2. The destruction of forests as a result of human
activity is called _____.
3. A type of pollution that does have a specific
point of origin _____.
4. _____ take millions of years to form and
accumulate.
5. ____ are also called the northern/southern
lights.
1. Patterns of stars are called _____.
2. A star’s brightness as it appears from
Earth is called _____.
3. ____ are plants such as cacti, which
have thick water-filled tissues.
4. ____ is harnessed by tapping natural
underground reservoirs of steam and hot
water.
5. ______ are organisms that cannot make
their own food.
Review Day 6
1. ____ is the upper part of the ocean into which
sunlight penetrates.
2. A ____ is an ecosystem with distinctive
temperature, rainfall, and organisms
3. ____ when an animal is active at night and
sleeps during the day.
4. ______ is frozen soil found in the Tundra.
5. _____ are ecosystems in which the roots of
plants are submerged under water at least part
of the year.
1. ____ is rain or snow that is more acidic
than normal.
2. _____ are organisms that can make their
own food.
3. _____ are animal-like plankton including
the larval stages of marine animals.
4. ____ is the lower part of the ocean which
sunlight does NOT penetrate.
5. ____ are Grasslands of short
bunchgrassses.
Review Day 7
1. ____ trees that produce seed cones.
2. The moon is eclipsed when it moves within
Earth’s shadow, producing a ________.
3. The _____ - Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars –
are relatively small and rocky.
4. ____ is a type of rock that forms from
sediments.
5. ____ is a series of different organisms that
transfer food between the trophic levels of an
ecosystem.
1. When two air masses meet they form a
______.
2. An ____ is a producer that can make its
own food.
3. ___ are violent windstorms that take the
form of a rotating column of air.
4. _____ can be replenished over fairly
short time spans.
5. ______ describes organisms living on or
in the ocean.
Review Day 8
1. A ____ is an ecosystem in which there is
more water than in a desert. (Abundance
of grasses)
2. A _____ is a natural structure built on a
continental shelf.
3. _____ are tropical or subtropical
grasslands ranging from dry scrub-land
to wet open woodland.
4. ____ are fast-moving rivers of air.
5. _____ are whirling tropical cyclones.
1. ____ are small rocky bodies found
between Mars & Jupiter.
2. ____ are pieces of rocky and metallic
materials held together by frozen gases,
such as water, ammonia, methane, etc.
3. ____ are organisms that consume the
bodies of dead organisms and other
organic wastes.
4. ____ is an area that is claimed as a living
space by an organism.
5. The ______ is the lowest layer of the
atmosphere (where we live).
Review Day 9
1. The amount of water vapor in air is called
____.
2. _____ is a substance that cannot be broken
down into simpler substances.
3. The ____ is a scale that divides Earth’s 4.56
billion year old history into units that represent
specific amounts of life.
4. The ____ radiates most of the sunlight we see
and can be thought of as the visible “surface”
of the sun.
5. A _____ is a land dwelling animal of the
Mesozoic Era.
1. ___ is the layer of the atmosphere that
protects us from UV rays from the sun.
2. ____ clouds are high, white, and thin.
3. Meteoroids that vaporize, enter Earths
atmosphere and then bun up is called
_____.
4. A ____ is a storm that generates
lightning and thunder.
5. An ___ occurs when an active cold front
overtakes a warm front.
Review Day 10
1. ____ is an immense body of air that is
characterized by similar temps. and
amounts of moisture.
2. ____ clouds consist of rounded individual
cloud masses.
3. ____ is a layer of the atmosphere that
protects us from meteoroids.
4. _____ is any hydrocarbon that may be
used as a source of energy.
5. ____ is the study of Earth.
1. ____ is the turning or spinning of a body on its
axis. (causes day and night)
2. The streams of protons/electrons that boil from
the corona make up the ____.
3. ____ are grasslands characterized by rolling
hills, plains and sod-forming grasses.
4. ____ is a science that deals with weather and
climate.
5. Under extreme pressure and temperature
conditions, ______ rocks form.