ICPE Final Review 2006
I. Introduction
1. On what number is the metric system based?
2. How many mm & cm in a meter? How many meters in a kilometer?
3. Know the rules for correctly expressing answers using scientific notation and significant figures.
4. What is normal body temperature and room temperature in degrees Celsius?
5. How many ml in a cc? in a cm3 ?
II. Motion
1. Speed = __________ ÷ _____________.
2. Velocity = __________________ + ___________________.
3. If a car is driving around a curve, but maintains a constant speed, does it change
velocity? Why or why not?
4. Acceleration = rate of change in _______________.
5. A vector represents the ________________ and _______________ of a velocity.
6. If we have two velocity vectors, we can combine them by constructing a
________________ vector, using a parallelogram.
7. Negative acceleration is called ____________________.
Formulas and Units
Letter formula
SI Unit
velocity
distance
time
acceleration
(Give 2)
Problems (4 points each)
Write the formula
Check for the need for conversions
Show ALL work, including units
Express answer in scientific notation, and circle your answer including units.
Speed and Velocity
1. A motorcycle goes North 1200 meters in 85 seconds. What is its velocity?
2. A spaceship travels at a velocity of 3.70 km/s . The distance from the earth to the moon is 3.87 x 10 5 km. How many DAYS
will it take to reach the moon?
3. A downhill ski racer can cover the 2.35 mile course in exactly three minutes.
A. What is the racer’s velocity in miles/minute?
B. How many miles could he cover in 1.50 hours?
4. A top sprinter runs the hundred-yard dash in 9.62 seconds. What is the runner’s velocity in miles per hour?
5. During a canoe race, a camper paddles 406 meters in 70 seconds. What is the average speed in m/s?
6. The distance from home plate to the pitcher’s mound is 18.5 meters. If a pitcher is capable of throwing a ball at 38.5 m/s, how
much time will it take a thrown ball to
reach home plate?
7. Light from the sun reaches the Earth in 8.3 minutes. The speed of light is 3.0 x 108 m/s.In meters, how far is the Earth from the
Sun?
Acceleration
1. An airplane goes from rest to a velocity of 80 m/s in 5 seconds. What is its rate of acceleration?
2. You are riding your bicycle at 14 m/s. You see a pot hole which you cannot avoid and slow down to 4 m/s in 1.5 seconds to
soften the impact. What is your acceleration?
3. If a car starts from rest and reaches 62 m/s in 4 seconds, what is its acceleration inm/sec 2?
4. Han Solo puts the Millennium Falcon into hyper-drive and the ship accelerates from 250,000 m/s to 800,000 m/s in 3.5
seconds. What is the rate of acceleration?
5. A Cheetah changes speed from 20 mi/hr to 60 mi/hr in 3 seconds. What is its acceleration?
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___1. Friction
A. Push or pull
___2. Newton
B. Resistance to change in its state of motion
___3. Force
C. Measurement of inertia
___4. Mass
D. Any force that acts between materials
___5. Inertia
E. (kilogram) (meters / second2)
6. What unit is used to measure force or weight (SI) ?
7. What unit is used to measure mass ?
8. What is the acceleration of a 5,000 kg car that has a 2000 N force applied to it?
9. Which has more inertia, a semi truck, or a bicycle? Explain.
10. In a tug of war between an elephant and a 98-lb weakling, what is the net force? Which direction?
III. Energy
1. Which of the following has the largest momentum relative to Earth?
A. a person walking down the street
B. a truck and horse trailer traveling on the highway
C. a large truck parked
D. a school building
E. a space shuttle in its hangar
2. A truck is going the speed limit on the highway. We magically add a load of hay, to the truck, doubling its mass, while it
continues at its original speed. The truck’s momentum is___.
3. The change in momentum is equal to___.
4. A large truck and a small car are both driving the speed limit on the highway. The car has ___.
5. A man and a woman do the same amount of work. The woman does the job faster than the man. The woman has more
___.
6. In order to have kinetic energy, an object must be___.
7. Which requires more work?
8. An object at rest may be said to have___.
9. A collision that causes deformation, generation of heat or both is an example of a(n) ___________________________
collision.
10. Energy can neither be ___________________ nor ______________________ according to the law of the conservation of
energy.
11. Increasing the time interval that a force is applied (decreases) (increases) the force.
12. Another term for (Newton)(meter) is __________________.
13. Granny is roller skating and picks up her grandson Ambrose. Granny’s momentum before picking up Ambrose is
(greater than) (less than) (equal to) her momentum after picking up Ambrose.
14. The _____________________ of momentum states that the momentum before a collision is equal to the momentum
after a collision.
15. Colliding objects rebound without lasting deformation or the generation of heat. This is an example of a(n)
______________________ collision.
16. Small changes in _____________ create large changes in _________ __________
17. A 10 kg medicine ball is thrown at 30 m/s. What is the momentum of the medicine ball?
18. A car has a momentum of 4500kg-m/s and is traveling at 15m/s. What is the mass of the car?
19. A block is pushed up a 15m frictionless surface with a force of 5N. How much work is done?
20. A block is pushed up a 20m frictionless surface with a force of 4N. How much work is done?
21. A girl pushes a ball up a 40m frictionless surface with a force of 10N, and it took 15s. How much power did she use?
22. The height of a ramp is 35m. How much does a package weigh if 70J of work are needed to slide it up the ramp?
23. Using 100J of work, an elevator is raised from the ground to the second floor in 10s. How much power does the
elevator use?
24. Bronco Brown leaps from a high cliff, attached to a bungee cord. He reaches top speed in 6
seconds. The cliff is 700 m high. His mass is 100 kg. He reaches the bottom of his fall in
9 sec.
A. What is his PE before he jumps from the cliff?
B. What is his velocity after 6 sec.?
C. What is his momentum after 6 sec.?
D. Impulse during the 3 sec. interval of slowing down is ______________________?
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E. What is the force on the bungee cord during the 3 sec. of slowing down?
IV. Gravity
1. What is the formula for gravitational attraction?
2. What is the inverse square law, and how does it affect gravitational force?
3. What affect does being at a high altitude have on the force of gravity one experiences?
4. What would the effect be on the Earth’s tides if the Moon were twice as massive?
5. What is the unit used to measure weight?
6. What is the force of gravity on a 400N woman standing on the earth’s surface?
7. If your mass and the Earth’s mass both doubled, yet everything else stayed the same size, what affect would this have
on your weight?
V. Density / Electricity
Current (unit = amperes) = volts / ohms
Power = current x voltage (watts = amperes x volts)
Electrical energy (unit = kWh) = power x time
1 kilowatt = 1000 watts
1. Density is ____.
A. amount of mass per unit volume B. amount of weight per unit volume
C. amount of volume per unit weight D. amount of volume per unit mass
2. You have a kilogram of each of the following. Which is the most dense?
A. poplar B. pine C. walnut D. oak E. copper
3. One milliliter is equal to ___.
4. Which has greater density, a kilogram of water or a gram of water?
5. Which has more mass, a kilogram of poplar or a kilogram of copper?
6. Which has more volume, 10 kg of styrofoam or 10 kg of copper?
7. In the density lab, which method of finding volume usually gave a smaller percentage error?
A. measuring with a ruler and multiplying B. submersion
C. they always gave the same volume D. none of these
8. Which is more dense, aluminum or brass?
9. What is the density of an object with a volume of 10 cm3 and a mass of 50 grams?
10. The density of water is ___.
11. An electrical circuit in which electrical devices are connected in such a way that the same voltage acts
across each one of the electrical devices is a ______ circuit.
12. An electrical circuit in which electrical devices are connected in such a way that any one completes the
circuit independently of all the others is a ____ circuit.
13. An electrical circuit in which electrical devices are connected in such a way that the same electric current
exists in each of them is called a ___ circuit.
14. Another name for voltage is _______.
15. Ohm’s Law states that ____ = voltage / resistance.
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16. Electrical power = current times ____.
17. A battery produces __ current.
18. An electrical outlet produces ___ current
19. In ____ , electrons flow in only one direction, rather than switching directions.
20. The cost of electricity in Ft. Collins is $.07/kw-hr or 7 cents per kw-hr. If an appliance runs 8 hours a
day for month, how much does it cost to run?
VI. Chemistry
Atomic Structure:
1. This is the charge on the proton.
2. This is the particle of an atom with a negative charge.
3. This is the largest charged particle.
4. These particles are located in orbits around the nucleus.
5. These particles dictate the properties of materials.
Atomic Models:
6. This man’s gold foil experiment showed that the atom is mostly empty space with the mass at the center.
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7. This man’s model of the atom was called the planetary model of the atom.
8. This is the name for a particle of light emitted when electrons move from outer orbits to inner orbits.
9. This model uses probabilities of finding electrons.
10. This model specifies a region where an electron with a certain amount of energy may be.
Atomic Nucleus:
11. This is a characteristic of time that measures the decay of carbon-14.
12. This particle is composed of 2 neutrons and 2 protons.
13. This the name of a particle composed of 1 electron.
14. These particles penetrate most materials.
15. This is the name for an atom with a different number of neutrons but having the same number of protons.
Atomic Facts:
16. Everything in the world is composed of these.
17. These are called the fingerprints of elements.
18. This element makes up 90% of all atoms.
19. The number of neutrons in an element with an atomic number of 16 and an atomic mass of 36.
20. These are the 4 elements found in living things.
ChemistryPartII
True/False- If the statement is false; change that statement so that it is a true statement.
1. The columns in the periodic table are called periods.
2. The rows in the periodic table are called groups.
3. The groups indicate how many shells are in that element.
4. The periods all have similar chemical and physical properties.
Matching
5. Atomic radius
a. The distance from the nucleus to the atoms outer surface
6. Ionization Energy
b. can be drawn into a wire
7. Electron affinity
c. can be bent without breaking
8.
Malleable
d. ability of an atom to attract electrons
9.
Ductile
e. conduct heat and electricity
10. Metals
f. brittle and shatter when hit
11. Non metals
g. energy required to pull an electron away
Use the figure below to match the lettered group with its correct name.
A
B
C
D E F
G
12. Alkali metals
13. Alkali earth metals
14. Noble Gases
15. Halogens
16. Inner Transition Metals
17. Transition Metals
Fill in the blank18. _________ are the un-reactive gases.
19. _________ are metals resistant to fire.
20. _________ are metals used for structural purposes.
21. _________ are metallic and nonmetallic in character.
22. _________ allows us to account for behavior of the elements in the table.
23. _________ are the most significant electrons and are found in the outer shell of the atom.
24. Be able to correctly balance chemical equations.
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VII. Acid / Base
1. What is the pH of an acid? A strong acid? A base? A strong base? Acid rain? Rainwater? A neutral substance?
2. What causes acid rain?
3. What are the affects of acid rain on the environment & on man-made objects?
4. What is an example of an acid? A base?
5. What sort of ions does an acid have an abundance of? A base?
6. What is a neutralization reaction? What are the products of this reaction?
7. Which antacid worked the “best “ in the antacid lab?
8. Which was the base in the tie-dye lab? The acid?
VIII. Earth Structure
1. The name given to the waves traveling through the earth’s interior is___________.
2. The instrument used to detect these waves is called a __________________.
3. P-waves compress and ______________.
4. S-waves move _____________to________________.
5. ______________waves register first on a seismograph.
6. The _____________is the layer of the earth composed of mostly iron and nickel.
7. Which layer of the core remains solid?
8. The ____________________is the thickest layer of the earth.
9. This layer is nearly all iron.
10. Oceanic crust is (more) or (less) dense than continental crust
11. The theory of ___________________ _________ is the belief that the earth is a dynamic planet with the continents in
constant motion.
12. The name given to the super-continent believed to exist before the continents separated was _______________.
13. What is the name of the side of the fault containing the wall that someone could stand on?
14. What is the name of the side of the fault containing the wall where someone would hang?
15. ______________is molten rock beneath the Earth’s surface.
16. ______________is molten rock above the Earth’s surface.
17.
This is the shape of a __________volcano.
18.
This is the shape of a __________volcano.
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When two plates move towards each other the boundary is called a _____________boundary.
When two plates move away from each other the boundary is called a _____________boundary.
A caldera is a very large _________________________.
Yellowstone and Hawaii are examples of _________ _________which are volcanoes that are not on the fault between
two plates.
23. Convergent boundaries lead to ______________zones, which are common places to find volcanoes.
24. Divergent boundaries lead to _____ _________ on land and _____ _______ ___________ (3 words) on the ocean
floor.
25. A fracture along which visible displacement can be detected on one side relative to the other is called a
________________.
26. _________ and reverse faults are two types of ___________movement along a fault.
27. The ___ ______ _______ (in California) is a _____________fault and is characterized by its horizontal movement.
28. In a fault that is showing vertical movement, if the footwall is going down it is a _______________ fault.
IX. Water / Earth History
True/False
1. Radiometric dating is a perfect way to determine the age of a rock.
2. Leaking septic tanks or storage tanks are examples of accidental chemical spills by humans.
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3. Water that I flush down the toilet is used for drinking by other people.
4. Fertilizer is an example of an accidental chemical spill.
5. Agriculture uses more water than industry.
6. Artesian water comes from a water-bottling factory in Artesia.
7. Sublimation is when a solid turns directly to a gas.
8. Relative dating is used to determine the age of a rock.
9. Radiometric dating relates the age of a rock to the layers of rock surrounding that rock.
10. Water that I drink was once flushed down someone else’s toilet.
11. Bottled water is better quality water than Ft. Collins tap water.
12. Home and domestic uses for water are greater than agricultural uses.
13. 75% of fresh water is below the earth’s surface.
Fill in the Blank:
14. Water in Ft. Collins comes from ____________________.
15. An aquifer is located (above) (below) ground.
16. The ability of a material to transmit fluid is called __________________.
17. The primary source of water contamination is _____________activity.
18. The hydrologic cycle is power by the _______and __________________.
19. Sinkholes are caused by____________________________.
20. When we say a bed or layer is older than the one above and younger than the one below we are using
_____________________.
21. The volume of open space in a soil or rock sample is called _____________.
22. All pore spaces below the ________ ___________ are saturated with water.
23. The __________ ________ is the natural circulation of water from ocean to atmosphere to ground and back to the
ocean.
24. Caves are caused by ___________________________________.
25. A crucial factor in the quality of our lives is the _____________ of our water.
X. Weather
 Alto - (prefix meaning)
 Eye of a tornado
 Nimbo - /nimbus prefix meaning)
 Tornado watch
 Cirro- (prefix meaning)
 Tornado warning
 Cumulo- (prefix meaning)
 CLOUDS:
 Relative humidity
1. Cirrus
 Condensation
2. Stratus
 Meteorology
3. Cumulonimbus
 Ozone Humidity
4. Cumulus
 Saturated
5. Cirrostratus
 Front
6. Nimbostratus
 Fog
7. Cirrocumulus
 Thunder
Recognize for multiple choice and true/false:
1.
Weather associated with a cold front vs. warm front
2. How winds form (what a pressure gradient is and air moves from ___ to ___ pressure)
3. Where air pressure is greatest ____________________
4. The 2 main gases in the atmosphere AND their relative amounts.
5. Which gas is present in the atmosphere but its amount varies by location & season?____
6. The differences between hurricanes & tornadoes –(wind speeds, where formed and when)
7. Wind speed at which a snow storm becomes a blizzard.
8. Wind speed at which a tropical storm becomes a hurricane.
9. Why a hurricane loses power over land.
10. The rating scales for tornadoes is called _________________ & least = ______ & most = _____
11. The rating scale for tornadoes is called________.
12. What three things cause a hurricane to develop?
13. How temperature is related to the amount of water vapor in the air: colder air = _______water vapor
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14. The formula for relative humidity.
15. Another name for a hurricane is a(n) ______________, which occurs in the ______________ rather than the
____________ ocean.
16. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Fort Collins was ___.
17. The driest place on Earth is __________ (or ______________).
Know for fill in the blank or short answer:
1. Know where the charge comes from in thunder clouds and how this creates lightning
2. Know what causes thunder (Explain, more than lightning!)
3. Know and be able to label the following from the layers of the atmosphere chart from the worksheet:
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Where the 4 layers are on the chart (thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere & troposphere)
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What layer weather occurs in
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What layer do airplanes fly in
XI. Astronomy
1. What are the best seeing conditions for using an optical telescope?
2. What are two types of optical telescopes?
3. Describe the structure of the two types of optical telescopes?
4. Why do we use other than optical telescopes?
5. What three things do optical telescopes do for an astronomer?
6. What are the advantages of using an Earth-based telescope?
7. What are the disadvantages of using an Earth-based telescope?
8. What are the advantages of using a space-based telescope?
9. What are the disadvantages of using a space-based telescope?
10. Know where the different types of electromagnetic waves are on the spectrum. E.g. What are the shortest waves on the
spectrum? Where are the radio waves relative to the visible light part of the spectrum/ microwave? Gamma rays?
11. What type of star is our sun?
12. What causes Earth’s seasons?
13. What is a solar eclipse?
14. What is a lunar eclipse?
15. What is the most dense object in the universe?
16. Know all the definitions :
 Black hole
 Red Giant
 binary star
 Nova
 Pulsar
 Galaxy
 Super nova
 Quasar
 Nebula
 White dwarf
 Neutron star
17. Be able to answer all these questions:
A. How big & hot is our sun?
B. How does our sun compare in size & temp. to other stars?
C. What phase in the life cycle of a star is our sun in right now?
D. What is the composition of our sun?
E. What is the next phase of our sun’s life cycle? And how long until it gets there?
F. How long is the typical lifetime of a star?
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