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8th Grade Science Spring Semester Review
Weather (Blue Notes Packet)
1. What is radiation?
2. What is convection?
3. What is the source of all
energy in our atmosphere?
4. Why is the Earth’s
surface and atmosphere
unevenly heated?
5. What is the Coriolis
Effect?
6. What is the main cause of
global wind patterns?
7. What are surface ocean
currents?
8. What effect can ocean
currents have on climate?
9. Give an example of a
place that has an unusually
COOL climate because of a
nearby ocean current.
10. Give an example of a
place that has an unusually
WARM climate because of
a nearby ocean current.
11. What is a front?
12. What type of air is
always forced up along a
front?
13. What are the symbols
for Warm, Cold &
Stationary fronts? (DRAW
AND LABEL THEM)
14. How do you tell which
way a front is moving on a
weather map?
15. What types of storms
usually form along a
COLD front?
16. What types of storms
usually form along a
WARM front?
17. What types of storms
usually form along a
STATIONARY front?
18. What type of weather is
usually associated with
HIGH pressure?
19. What type of weather is
usually associated with
LOW pressure?
20. Interpret the weather
station model
Temperature:
Dew Point:
Wind Direction:
Wind Speed:
Cloud Cover:
Pressure:
Current Weather:
21. What is a hurricane?
Moon & Seasons (Blue Notes Packet)
22. What does waxing
mean?
23. What does waning
mean?
24. Label each of the moon
phases in the diagram.
25. What force causes
tides?
26. During what two moon
phases are tides the
highest?
27. What causes seasons?
28. During what season are
daylight hours longer?
WHY?
29. During what season are
daylight hours shorter?
WHY?
30. What is an equinox?
31. What is a solstice?
Plate Tectonics (Red Notes Packet)
32. What is the theory of
Continental Drift?
33. Why was it rejected at
first?
34. What discovery finally
proved that it was correct?
35. What evidence did
Wegener have to support his
theory of Continental Drift?
36. Label all the layers of the
Earth shown in the diagram.
37. In which layer are the
tectonic plates?
38. In which layer are the
convection currents that
cause the plates to move?
39. What forms at convergent
boundaries between 2
continental plates?
GIVE AN EXAMPLE
40. What forms at convergent
boundaries between an
oceanic and a continental
plate? GIVE AN EXAMPLE
41. What is subduction?
42. What forms at divergent
boundaries between two
continental plates? GIVE AN
EXAMPLE
43. What forms at divergent
boundaries between two
oceanic plates? GIVE AN
EXAMPLE
44. What forms along
transform boundaries? GIVE
AN EXAMPLE
Ecosystems & Pollution (Red Notes Packet)
45. What are producers?
46. What are consumers?
47. Why are decomposers
important to an ecosystem?
48. What is an omnivore?
49. What is an herbivore?
50. What is a carnivore?
51. Give 3 examples of biotic
factors in a marine
ecosystem.
52. Give 3 examples of abiotic
factors in a forest ecosystem.
Use the ecosystem to the right
to answer the following
questions:
53. Which organism is a
producer?
54. Which organisms are
consumers?
55. Which organism is an
herbivore?
56. Which 2 organisms
compete for the same food
source?
57. Which organism is the top
predator?
58. Which organisms are prey
for the top predator?
59. How would the population
of Lady beetles change if the
Spiders became endangered?
60. How would the population
of the Lacewings change if
the Aphids became
endangered?
61. Give an example of
mutualism.
62. Give an example of
parasitism.
63. What is a limiting factor?
64. Give 2 examples
BEHAVIORAL of
adaptations.
65. Give 2 examples
STRUCTURAL of
adaptations.
66. Name 3 ways humans
depend on oceans.
1.
2.
3.
67. Name 3 ways that humans
negatively impact oceans
ecosystems.
1.
2.
3.
Cells (Green Notes Packet)
68. What are the 3 main
conclusions of the Cell
Theory?
69. How are prokaryotic and
eukaryotic cells different?
70. How do you calculate the
magnification power of a
microscope?
71. Label parts A, B, C, D, E,
G, J, K, & L of the cells in
the diagrams below. Also
label what TYPE OF CELL
each diagram represents.
__________ Cell
_____________ Cell
A.______________________
B.______________________
C.______________________
D.______________________
E.______________________
G.______________________
J. ______________________
K.______________________
L.______________________
72. What is the main function
of the cell membrane?
73. What is the cell membrane
made of?
_____________ Cell
74. What is osmosis?
75. What is diffusion?
76. What is cytoplasm?
77. What is the function of the
nucleus?
78. What is the main function
of the mitochondria?
79. What do the ribosomes
make for the cell?
80. What do vacuoles store?
81. Why are vacuoles much
larger in plant cells than in
animal cells?
82. Which two organelles are
only found in plant cells?
83. What is the main function
of the cell wall?
84. What are cell walls made
of?
85. What is the main function
of the chloroplast?
86. What is mitosis?
87. What type of offspring
does meiosis produce?
Biomolecules (Green Notes Packet)
88. What the difference
between organic & inorganic
substances?
89. How are monomers
different than polymers?
90. Which biomolecule type is
the main energy source for
living things?
91. How do monosaccharides
and polysaccharides differ?
92. What are lipids?
93. What part of the cell is
made of lipids?
94. What building blocks that
proteins made up of?
95. What kinds of jobs do
proteins have within a cell or
organism?
96. What is the main function
of Nucleic Acids?
97. What monomers are
nucleic acids made of?
98. Draw an example of each
type of biomolecule
Carbohydrate
Protein
Lipid
Nucleic Acid