Earth and Space Science Final Exam
Related Links
Metric Units and Conversions {Go to the link and focus on the “Relationships” column.}
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/common.html
Read Mr. Thackwray’s Lab Safety Rules on the link below.
http://nobel.scas.bcit.ca/debeck_pt/science/safety.htm
Use the link below to review longitude and latitude. Take the 8 questions quiz when you have
completed reading the page.
http://www.mcwdn.org/MAPS&GLOBES/Latitude.html
Use the link below to determine the density of an unknown metal.
Click on the image of the Density Virtual Laboratory.
http://www.karlyoder.com/flash.html
Five Characteristics of a Mineral
http://quizlet.com/60048/5-characteristics-of-a-mineral-and-identifying-flash-cards/
Physical Property Tests
http://facweb.bhc.edu/academics/science/harwoodr/Geol101/labs/minerals/
Formation of Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rocks
http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/canopy/1080/metamorphic_formation.htm
What determines whether an igneous rock has large or small crystals?
http://geology.com/rocks/igneous-rocks.shtml
Click on the link below to watch why and how existing rocks become metamorphic rocks
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0607/es0607page01.cfm?chapter_
no=visualization
Plate Boundaries: Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0804/es0804page01.cfm?chapt
er_no=visualization
http://www.iris.edu/gifs/animations/faults.htm
Geologists believe that convection currents in the lower mantle are
responsible for moving the Earth’s plates of lithosphere.
http://www.curriculumbits.com/prodimages/details/geography/geo0011.html
What kinds of landforms form at the three different types of plate boundaries?
http://geobytesgcse.blogspot.com/2007/01/plate-boundaries.html
How does the age of the seafloor change as you move away from a mid-ocean ridge?
http://oceanography.geology-guy.com/ppts/chapter02_plate-tectonics/chapter02_plate-tectonics.swf
Seismic Waves {P Waves, S Waves, and Surface Waves}
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~rmellors/lab8/l8maineq.htm#swave
Focus and Epicenter of Earthquakes
http://cavern.uark.edu/~pjansma/intro_pdf/geol1113_24_earthquakes_07.pdf
Types of Volcanoes {Shield, Composite, and Cinder Cones}
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/volcano1.htm
Identify and describe the layers of the Earth’s atmosphere from those closest to the Earth’s surface
to those that are farthest away. What are the characteristics of each?
http://forces.si.edu/atmosphere/04_00_01.html
Atmospheric Density and Altitude
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter1/graphics/everest.jpg
Heat Transfer {Radiation, Conduction, and Convection}
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/SCE304/SCE304.swf
What determines the temperature of the water an ocean current carries?
http://trc.ucdavis.edu/biosci10v/bis10v/media/ch31/climate_currents_v2.html
The Coriolis Effect
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/earth/coriolis.html
Weather fronts
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es2002/es2002page01.cfm?chapt
er_no=visualization
http://www.stevemcentee.com/animation3.html
The Earth’s Seasons
http://esminfo.prenhall.com/science/geoanimations/animations/01_EarthSun_E2.html
The Moon’s Phases
http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/moonphase.html
Asteroids, Comets, Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites
http://www.star.le.ac.uk/edu/Comets_Index.shtml
Tools of Modern Astronomy
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002040F/refracting_and_reflecting_telescopes.htm