MID-TERMSTUDY GUIDE
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY, METRIC SYSTEM, DATA TABLES AND GRAPHING
(Use your White Note Packet, Vocabulary Sheets and Textbook)
- What is scientific inquiry?
- Can you identify all the steps of scientific inquiry and explain where each step will go? (page 11)
- Convert the following numbers…
- 675 km = ______md. 83.5 cm = ______hm
- .76 mg = ______ge. 9.45 L = ______dL
- .0056 hL = ______kLf. .043 kg = ______mg
- What are the basic metric units for length, mass, temperature and volume?
- What are the four components that make up a good data table?
Looking at the data table on page 711, what component of a good data table is it missing?
- What are the five components that make up a good graph?
Looking at the graph on page 711, what component of a good graph is it missing?
What trend, if any, do you notice with the graph?
- Can you answer the following question based on this scenario:
Your mom was given two plants for her birthday and she wanted them to grow really quickly. She heard that if you place this particular kind of plant in the dark they will grow really quickly.
What is the purpose/objective of this scenario?
Write a hypothesis for this statement in one of the correct forms:
What is the Independent (manipulating) variable?
What is the Dependent (responding) variable?
What variables were kept constant?
GEOLOGY REVIEW
(Use the Green Note Packet, Vocabulary and Textbook)
1. What are the three types of volcanoes and know their differences (page 218 & 219 of your textbook).
2. What is the difference between magma and lava?
3. What is the difference between the epicenter and the focus of an earthquake?
4. Explain/describe the different types of waves that are produced from an earthquake and how you use them to find the epicenter on a map (page 175 of your textbook).
5. Name the five characteristics a mineral must have.
6. Be able to calculate Specific Gravity Problems.
- A mineral has a water weight of 35 grams and an air weight of 50 grams. What is the specific gravity of the mineral?
B. The air weight of a mineral is found to be 84 grams. The difference between the two weights is 12 grams. What is the specific gravity of the mineral?
7. Describe how each of the three types of rocks form and the rock cycle. Study your rock cycle diagrams (pages 115
121 of your textbook).
8. Erosion and deposition play roles in the formation of ______rock.
9. Great heat and pressure play a role in forming ______rock.
10. Volcanic activity (cooling and hardening of magma/lava) plays a role in forming ______rock.
11. Understand the difference between coarse-grained, fine-grained, and glassy.
12. What is the Law of Superposition? Given a diagram, be able to state which layer or event happened first/last, etc (page 322 & 351 of your textbook).
13. Which is the era of invertebrates? The age of reptiles/dinosaurs? The age of mammals?
14. Element “J” has a half-life of 30 years. How much will be left in 120 years if you start with 240 grams?
15. What is the theory of plate tectonics? What natural events can occur because of the theory of plate tectonics? (textbook page 151)
16. What is the theory of seafloor spreading? What is created ocean floor features are created during seafloor spreading and what processes occur? What causes seafloor spreading to happen? (page 146)
17. Tell the difference between the three boundaries (convergent, divergent, transform).
18. Tell the difference between the three faults (normal, reverse, strike-slip) and the stresses associated with each.
19. Be able to calculate the density of a mineral. Know the formula and the lab procedure needed.
20. What do contour lines do on a topographic map?
21. What is a contour interval?
22. How are steep slopes drawn on a topographic map? How is this different from gentle slopes?
Could you draw them?
23. Can you read and interpret a topographic map? Reference your guided reading and lab.
THIS IS ONLY A GUIDE AND THERE MAY BE QUESTIONS ON THE MID-TERM THAT ARE NOT ON THIS REVIEW SHEET… YOU SHOULD ALSO STUDY YOUR TEST REVIEW SHEETS FROM EACH UNIT TEST THAT WAS GIVEN, YOUR JOURNAL, LABS AND NOTE PACKETS. IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, PLEASE SEE ME DURING PACE.
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