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AG EARTH SCIENCE
FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Final exam will cover information from Chapter 1, 8, 9 and 10.
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What is included in the geosphere? (three things) and be able to label them (core, mantle, crust)
How to find the coordinates on a map
How to read a topographic map
Describe why we use topographic maps.
Be able to explain the slope of a mountain using a topographic map
How the solar system was created (nebular hypothesis) which planets formed first? Last?
Be able to label latitude, longitude, prime meridian and equator on a map
Be able to explain the difference between physical geology and historical geology
Be able to explain which hemispheres are created by the equator and the prime meridian
What is included in the following: biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere
What do the following sciences study: astronomy, meteorology, geology, oceanography
Briefly describe the theory of plate tectonics.
Who created the theory of continental drift?
What are two pieces of evidence that helped to prove the theory of continental drift?
What was the super-continent called in the continental drift theory?
What evidence was used to form the plate tectonics theory?
How does Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics differ?
What is the lithosphere? Be able to label a picture. What is included
What are the three types of plate boundaries? Be able to describe their motions or draw them. What causes
plates to move?
Which type of plate boundary causes seafloor spreading?
A rift valley is evidence of which kind of plate boundary?
The San Andreas Fault is an example of what kind of boundary?
Describe and/or draw the currents that occur under the earths surface.
What is Convective flow?
Be able to label the parts of an Earthquake. (fault, epicenter, focus)
What are the three types of waves from earthquakes? Be able to describe them.
Be able to label the three types of waves on a seismogram image
What is the main fault found in California? What type of fault is it?
What is the difference between an aftershock and a foreshock?
What is a seismograph and a seismogram?
Be able to explain the Richter scale and how its number system works.
Be able to explain a reading off of the richter scale.
Be able to explain the difference between the magnitude and intensity of an earthquake. What do they each
measure?
Be able to explain the elastic rebound theory
What is the most widely used measurement of earthquakes? (moment magnitude)
What is a Tsunami? How are they caused?
What are the three factors that affect the degree of damage that occurs to structures in earthquakes?
What is viscosity? What type of Lava is most viscous?
What are pyroclastic materials?
What are the three types of volcanoes? Describe them.
What are the parts of a volcano – be able to label them
What is the difference between a sil, dike and batholith?
What is a caldera?
What are Lava Plateaus?