The EARTH SCIENCE Portion

Name______

What are minerals?
What are 5 tests we can use to identify minerals?
What is a gem? What is an ore?
What are the three types of rocks? Briefly describe each one.
Draw the rock cycle. Make sure to draw and label every connection between the different types of rocks.
What is the difference between intrusive igneous rocks, and extrusive igneous rocks?
Intrusive igneous rocks usually have ______(bigger or smaller sized) grains due to ______(slower or faster) cooling time.
Extrusive igneous rocks usually have ______(bigger or smaller sized) grains due to ______(slower or faster) cooling time.
Look at a figure like that on your Igneous Rock handout and label these:
What is a batholith?
What is a laccolith?
What is a sill?
What is an igneous dike?
What is weathering?
Give an example of chemical weathering.
Give an example of physical weathering
What are the four main agents of erosion?
What is lithification? What does it look like? (draw mud layers being compacted, and draw sand being compacted.)
What is permeability?
What is porosity?
Draw a situation where evaporates evolved. (ocean, lake, evaporation, gypsum crystals sinking etc. from notes)
Why does Sperry have gypsum? (hint-what kind of rock is gypsum and what did Iowa use to be?)
Name a couple of reasons why sedimentary rocks are important.
Name three ways that metamorphic rocks form. (hint-one of them is regional metamorphism)
Why does granite change to gneiss?

What is plate tectonics?
What did Alfred Wegener call his clumped-together land mass?
What causes the plates to move?
Name the three types of boundaries and define them.
There are three types of convergent boundaries-name them and say what they cause (mountains or trenches?)
What kind of boundary is also called a fault?
What is a volcano?
What are the three types of magma?
What are the three types of volcanoes?
What is a caldera?
What is tephra?
What is a pyroclastic flow?
What is an earthquake? What causes earthquakes?
What are the three types of stress?
What are seismic waves?
Draw an example of seismic waves being captured on a seismometer and explain whether it is a big or little earthquake based on the size of the squiggles.
What is an epicenter?
What is the Richter scale? At what point on the Richter scale is the earthquake probably felt? At what point does it do destructive damage?
What makes a thunderstorm severe?
What is the difference between a tornado and a funnel cloud?
Be able to label the clouds in a picture.
What is the EF-scale?
What is a hurricane?
How does a hurricane form?
Be able to discuss a little about Hurricane Katrina and why that was so devastating.

The ASTRONOMY Portion

Name three types of electromagnetic radiation.
Name the two types of telescopes, and the difference between them.
What is one benefit of using a telescope?
Where is the best place to place a telescope, and why?
What is interferometry?
Name the three theories of the moon's formation, and which one scientists think is the correct one, and why.
The earth is tilted at ______degrees to the ecliptic.
What is one way to prove that the earth is rotating?
If given pictures of the sun, moon, and earth lined up, be able to say which type of eclipse it would be, and be able to draw the penumbra and umbra.
Why do we not have an eclipse every month?
What is the order of the planets?
Which planet(s) has/have no moons?
Which planet has clouds of sulfuric acid?
Which planet is the largest? How much larger is it than the Earth?
Which planet(s) has/have rings?
Which planet was predicted before it was discovered?
What is an asteroid, meteroid, meteor, and meteorite?
What is a comet? If shown a picture of one, be able to label its parts.
Why do we experience meteor showers?
What are the four types of galaxies?
What is the Big Bang theory? (not the show! )