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EARTH SCIENCE FINAL REVIEW
PHYSICS UNIT
TERMS AND CONCEPTS:
Distance vs displacement
Speed vs displacement
Force
Newton’s 2nd Law
Potential energy
Trough
Frequency
Speed of light
Opaque
speed
gravity
friction
Newton’s 3rd Law
kinetic energy
amplitude
transverse wave
transparent
velocity
“g”
Newton’s first law
energy
crest
wavelength
longitudinal wave
translucent
Some Additional Things to Know:
How to label a standard wave
Choose which of Newton’s laws is represented in a situation
Distinguish whether common materials are opaque, transparent, or
translucent
Work velocity problems solving for any of the three variables
Work gravitational potential energy problems
Work kinetic energy problems
Practice Problems:
1. How far has a dog run if he is travelling at a speed of 5.3 m/s for 44 s?
2. How fast is a car travelling if it has gone 70 m in 52 s?
3. What is the kinetic energy of a jogger with a mass of 85 kg traveling at a speed
of 3.6 m/s?
4. What is the kinetic energy of a baseball with a mass of 2 kg that is traveling at
14 m/s?
5. What is the potential energy of a 5 kg rock that is at the top of a 175 m high
cliff?
6. What is the potential energy of a 2 kg textbook if it is held at 2.3 m above the
floor?
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EARTH SCIENCE FINAL REVIEW
CHAPTERS 17,18,and 19
Terms and Concepts:
Continental drift
Asthenosphere
Mantle
Divergent boundary
Shield volcano
Terrane
Pyroclastic flow
s-waves
epicenter
tsunami
Alfred Wegner
inner core
crust
convergent boundary
cinder cone volcano
viscosity
earthquake
Richter scale
focus
seismic gap
plate tectonics
outer core
evidence for PT
transform boundary
composite volcano
types of plutons
p-waves
Modified Mercalli
seismometer
causes of earthquakes
Some Additional Things to Know:
What happens at each type of plate boundary?
What process do scientists use to tell epicenter of earthquake?
What does each type of volcano look like?
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EARTH SCIENCE FINAL REVIEW
WEATHER--CHAPTERS 11-14
Terms and Concepts:
Conduction
Ozone
Heat
condensation nuclei
Dew point
Hail
Coriolis effect
Blizzard
Storm surge
Anemometer
convection
troposhere
stratosphere
thermosphere
sleet
relative humidity
jet stream
front
squall line
barometer
radiation
temperature
mesosphere
cloud types
freezing rain
psychrometer
prevailing winds
hurricane
climate
Some Additional Things to Know:
Four types of fronts
Absolute zero
Causes of global warming
Effects of global warming
An Inconvenient Truth
Descriptions of the four layers of the atmosphere
How clouds are formed
Three temperature conversion formulas and how to work problems:
1. 500 K =___________C
2. 39 F =______________C
3. 90 C = ____________F
4. 350 C = _____________K
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EARTH SCIENCE FINAL REVIEW
GEOLOGIC TIME ( CHAPTERS 21-24)
RESOURCES (CHAPTERS 25-27)
TERMS AND CONCEPTS:
Fossils
Molds and casts
Relative dating
original remains
carbonaceous films
principle of superposition
Embedded fragments rule
absolute dating
Parent isotope
daughter isotope
Beta particle
electron capture
Pre-cambrian era
Paleozoic era
Cenozoic era
resource
Nonrenewable resource ore
Fossil fuels
solar energy
Geothermal energy
nuclear energy
Carrying capacity
point source pollution
replaced remains
trace fossils
principle of cross-cutting relationships
radioactive decay
alpha particle
half-life
Mesozoic era
renewable resource
gangue
wind energy
hydroelectric energy
nonpoint source pollution
Some Additional Things to Know:
Examples of each fossil type
How to read a rock-layer diagram
How to balance nuclear reactions
How to do half-life problems
A brief history of the earth including descriptions of each era
Advantages and disadvantages of various alternative energy sources
Analysis of our everyday choices and the impact they make on the
environment
Write the balanced equation for each of the following nuclear decays please.
1. Alpha decay of Thorium—233. Thorium is Th.
2. Beta decay of Uranium—238. Uranium is U.
3. Electron capture by Radium—226. Radium is Ra.
4. Alpha decay of lead—208. Lead is Pb.
5. Electron capture by Americium—243. Americium is Am.
Begin by determining the number of half lives that have passed. Then
answer each question please.
6. If an isotope with a half-life of 20 days has been decaying for 60
days, how much remains of a 180 g sample?
7. An isotope with a half-life of 22 minutes has decayed from a 22 g
sample to a 2.75 g sample. How long has it been decaying?
8. How many half-lives does it take for only 6.25% of an original
sample to remain?
9. What was the original sample size if an isotope with a half life of
seven minutes has been decaying for 56 minutes and has only 2.5
grams remaining?
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EARTH SCIENCE FINAL REVIEW
CHAPTERS 28-31
Terms and Concepts:
Rotation
Winter solstice
Apogee
Lunar eclipse
Solar eclipse
Waxing
Corona
Geocentric
Constellations
Absolute magnitude
Mercury
Sputnik
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
revolution
vernal equinox
perigee
maria
umbra
aurora
fusion
photosphere
Big Bang
AU’s
Gemini
Alan Shepard
Some Additional Things to Know:
Three types of galaxies
What determines color of a star?
Eight planets in order from sun
Descriptions of each of the eight planets
Apollo 13
Diagram of moon phases
Diagram of sun
summer solstice
autumnal equinox
tides
penumbra
waning
chromosphere
heliocentric
solar wind
light year
Neil Armstrong
Apollo
Yuri Gagarin