Science 10 Enriched Mid-Year Exam Outline

Science 10 Enriched Mid-Year Exam Outline

How to Study for this exam:

·  Make sure you have CORRECT answers for the reading guides, assignments, quizzes and tests

·  Organize your notes in a format that makes sense to you (chronological or otherwise)

·  Create summaries for your personalized study guide, using correct vocabulary, but in BRIEF point form (some people find it helpful to use index cards for each topic)

·  Review correct methods for solving problems involving calculations (these can also be summarized as steps, if it helps you)

·  REHEARSE answering questions by doing problems from assignments and practice sheets

·  CHECK your answers by verifying from your corrected work

Studying with a Partner: This can be helpful if you follow these guidelines

·  Work together to efficiently sort and identify the correct information you need (compare corrected work and share the “best” answers)

·  Work together to come up with practice questions

·  Do practice questions for calculations INDEPENDENTLY, then correct your answers together, looking for problems with method if you get different answers

Format of the exam: The following types of questions may be included

multiple choice

matching

graphs and word problems (calculations)

sketching or labelling diagrams

short answer

Content of the exam: The content of the exam will follow roughly these proportions:

Weather 50%

Motion 50%

You will need:

pencils (2) and a good eraser, a pencil sharpener

pens, if you prefer and correction tape

( do not bring liquid paper – the solvents may irritate others)!)

ruler

calculator (if you do not have one – BORROW one for the exam)

Do NOT Bring: papers, binders or notebooks

cell phones, music players or other electronics

(you will be asked to leave these on a table at the front of the room)

Topics Do not forget to study tests and quizzes in addition to reviewing the following topics.

Weather

·  energy factors that contribute to weather

-  three types of heat transfer

-  solar energy and how solar energy reaches the earth

-  what types of surfaces absorb the most energy

·  relative humidity

-  using the saturated humidity table, calculate relative humidity, or find one of the temperature values when relative humidity is known

·  properties of water

-  explain the 4 reasons why water changes temperature slowly in comparison to other materials

·  heat

-  calculate amount of heat, change in temperature or heat capacity for different materials, including water

-  calculate heat energy of phase change (melting freezing, evaporating, condensing)

·  onshore and offshore breezes

-  explain how and why convection currents create the two types of breezes at different times of the day

-  explain how hail, sleet and freezing rain occur

·  warm, cold and occluded fronts

-  sketch these fronts, including clouds and describe the weather patterns associated with each

·  high and low pressure systems

-  describe the weather patterns associated with each, as well as the air flows (warm/cold, rising/descending) and surface winds (clockwise/counter-clockwise, inward/outward)

·  clouds

-  identify cloud types using scientific names and descriptions

-  explain how lightning occurs

·  hurricanes

-  development of a hurricane (required conditions)

-  terms to describe increasing strength (tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane)

-  dangers associated with hurricanes

·  tornadoes

-  development of a tornado (required conditions)

Motion

·  convert values from one unit to another

·  given a graph of displacement (position) or velocity vs. time, describe the motion involved (starting point, direction, distance travelled and time)

·  given the graph (d vs t or v vs t), write a description of the motion

·  solve word problems involving acceleration, velocity, displacement and time (v, Δd, Δt)

·  solve word problems involving gravity (free fall and projectiles)

·  given a graph of velocity vs. time, find the distance travelled using the area under the curve (will be covered after the exam)

·  general knowledge from readings (terminal velocity, G suits, motion detection)