FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
OCEANOGRAPHY REVIEW
(Use the Blue Note Packet, Vocabulary Sheets and Textbook)
1.
Be able to identify the ocean floor features if given a diagram. (seamount, guyot, etc.). Use your
contour of the ocean floor project and/or the figure in the book on pages 474-475 & 503.
2.
Solve the following word problems.
Depth = (# of Seconds/2) X 1500 m/s
A. How deep is the ocean if it took a sound wave 20 seconds to travel to the ocean floor and back to the surface?
B. What is the depth if a sound wave took .33 seconds to travel to the ocean floor and back to the surface?
3.
Give 2 examples of how salinity can increase and 2 examples of how salinity of ocean water can
decrease:
4.
What is echosounding and how does it work?
5.
What are the parts of the water cycle (use page 393 or 431 of your textbook)? Give the definition of each part.
6.
Know the following ocean zones and what examples might be found in each: intertidal, neritic, open-ocean,
surface, transition and deep (page 476 of your textbook).
7.
What are the parts of a wave (page 436 of you textbook)?
8.
How do waves change/shape a beach?
9.
What causes surface currents? What causes most deep currents?
10.
What causes tides?
11.
What is the difference between a spring tide and a neap tide? What is the alignment of the earth,
moon and the sun for each (page 445 of your textbook)?
12.
Can you label - Permeable/Impermeable/Saturated/Unsaturated/Water Table (use page 405 of your textbook)
ASTRONOMY REVIEW
(Use the Yellow Note Packet, Vocabulary and your textbook)
1. The Hertzsprung Russell Diagram tells us what information about stars? (use textbook page 758)
1. (Using page 758 in your textbbok) Algol is what type of star? Color?
Alderbaran is what type of star? Color?
2. Understand the difference between rotation, revolution and orbit. (textbook page 661)
3. What is a constellation? Know the circumpolar constellations.
4. Be able to describe the life cycle of a star and all of the paths that a star can take from birth to death
(764 & 765 of your textbook).
5. Know the 3 types of galaxies. What type is the Milky Way? (textbook page 770)
6. What is a lunar eclipse? What is a solar eclipse? During what phases of the moon can an eclipse
occur? (pages 673-675 in your textbook)
7. Make sure you understand the different theories of astronomy – big bang, geocentric, heliocentric,
collision. (page 701 & 702)
8. Know the forces associated with earth – gravity, inertia, law of universal gravitation
9. Know the difference between cosmic background radiation, dark matter and dark energy.
METEOROLOGY STUDY GUIDE
(Use your Purple Note Packet, Vocabulary and your textbook)
1. Name that…….
Instrument:
An instrument that measures humidity
Instrument that measures air pressure
Instrument used to measure temperature
Winds and Lines:
Name of the wind that affects the United States
Winds that move long distances from one direction
Winds that move short distances from any direction
Lines on a map used to connect areas of the same air pressure
Lines on a map used to connect areas of the same temperature
All About Water:
The process by which molecules of water vapor become liquid
A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
The percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum it can hold
Liquid water becomes water vapor
The temperature at which condensation begins
2. Can you solve………(remember all three steps)
45oF ------- oC
93oF ------- oC
8oC ------- oF
27oC ------- oF
3. Using the chart on page 562 of your textbook, determine the relative humidity.
Dry Bulb Temperature = 14 OC
Wet Bulb Temperature = 13 OC
Dry Bulb Temperature = 18 OC
Wet Bulb Temperature = 14 OC
Dry Bulb Temperature = 15 OC
Wet Bulb Temperature = 13 OC
4. Using you textbook page 513, what percent of the air does Nitrogen take up? What percent of the air does
Oxygen take up?
5. Name the layers of the atmosphere and the important characteristics of each (use page 523 of your
textbook).
6. Name the 4 major types of air masses and state whether they are dry/humid and/or warm/cold (use page
579 of your textbook).
7. Please answer the questions below that pertain to this diagram.
What is the name of this diagram?
What is the Air Pressure?
What is the Dew Point Temperature?
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What is the Wind Direction? (write it out)
What is the Present Weather?
What is the Cloud Coverage?
8. Calculate cloud height – [(ta-td) X 4.5] X 1000
What is the cloud height if the air temperature is 72oF and the dew point temperature is 68oF?
If the dew point temperature is 13oF and the air temperature is 20oF, what is the cloud height?
9. Using the map on page 603 of your textbook, can you answer the following questions?
What is the object called over Boise, ID? What kind of air does it bring to the area?
What is the line with blue triangles called? What type of air does it bring to an area?
What is the object that is over Richmond, VA? What type of air is associated with this object?
What are the black lines on the map called?
What are the circles with arrows and flags sticking out from it called?
THIS IS ONLY A GUIDE AND THERE MAY BE QUESTIONS ON THE FINAL 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 MPP.
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