Final Review Spring
The Content below is a list of material/definitions that you need to know for the district common assessment.
This is meant to be used as a check list. Materials (Notes, PowerPoints and Review sheets) from the website and previous
class exams should be used as a thorough way of covering the topics below.
1st Semester
1. Chemistry:
a. Atomic Structure
i. Particles of an atom1. Proton
2. Neutron
3. Electron
4. Charges,
5. properties
6. and relative sizes
ii. Atomic Number
1. What does it mean?
iii. Atomic Mass
iv. Using Atomic Mass and Atomic
# to calculate Neutrons
v. Isotope
vi. Half Life
vii. Calculate subatomic particles
from the periodic table
b. Physical and Chemical Changes
i. Phases of matter
ii. Phase Changes
1. Melting
2. Freezing
3. Sublimation
4. Condensation
5. Evaporation
iii. Chemical Changes
1. Element
2. Compound
3. Mixture
c. Elements and the Periodic Table
i. Organization of Periodic table
1. Special Groups
2. Periods and Groups
d. Bonding
i. Ionii. Ionic Bondsiii. Covalent Bondsiv. Counting atoms in a molecule
v. Reactants
vi. Products
e. Acids and Bases
i. Def. Acid
ii. Def. Base
iii. pH scale
iv. Def. indicator
2nd Semester
2. Earth Science:
a. Earth’s Interior
i. Earthquakes
1. Seismic Waves
ii. Graphing
iii. Seismographs
iv. Continental Drift
v. Boundary Types
vi. Volcanoes
b. Weather
i. Air Masses and mvmnt. of air
ii. Clouds
iii. Lightning and Thunder
iv. Layers of the Atmosphere
c. Water and Oceanography
i. Water Cycle
ii. Layers of the ocean
iii. Porosity
iv. Permeability
v. Aquifers
vi. Water Pollution
d. Astronomyi. Telescopes
1. EM Spectrum
ii. Stars
1. Star life cycle
2. HR Diagram
iii. Order of planets
iv. Major characteristics of planets
v. The moon and eclipses
vi. Tides- Spring vs. Neap
vii. Graphing
3. Physics
a. Volume (1 equation, v = lwh)
b. Density (1 equation, d = m/v))
c. Motion- (2 equations)
i. Speed- (s = d/t)
1. Graphing
ii. Free Fall (v = gt, d = ½ gt2)
d. Energy- (3 equations)
i. Conservation of Energy
ii. Momentum- µ = mv
1. Conservation of
Momentum
iii. Work – (w = Fd)
iv. Power- (P = w/t)