EOG Review Questions and Answers
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1. How is Biotechnology used in the real world?
2. Why should Antibiotics be taken on time?
3. How do you successfully balance a chemical equation?
4. What is Turbidity?
5. What is the difference between point and nonpoint source pollution?
6. What is an estuary?
7. How does biotechnology relate to genetic modification?
8. Why is nuclear energy a better source for cleaner air?
9. What is Eutrophication?
10. What is individual susceptibility?
11. How does exposure relate to sickness?
12. What is a pathogen?
13. What is the difference between a carrier and a vector?
14. How do nitrites and nitrates differ?
15.What is surface tension?
16.What is the difference between cohesion and adhesion?
17. What is the difference between a virus and a bacteria?
18. What is an index fossil and how does it relate to the law of superposition?
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19. What is the law of conservation of mass and how does it relate to chemical
equations? List and note how they balance.
20. List all energy sources and the pros and cons of each.
Wind, hydroelectric, solar, geothermal, nuclear, fossil fuels.
21. What is the main use for silicon?
22. What are protists? List 4 of them & illustrate.
23. What are aquafiers & why are they important?
24. What is DDT & why is it dangerous?
26. What is sonar? How is it used to map ocean floors?
27. What are mutagens and what do they cause?
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28. What is the difference between permeable and impermeable soil?
29. What is a delta and where is it located?
30. What are the unique properties of water? How do these make water different from
other substances?.
31. What are the differences between periods and groups of the periodic table?
How does this relate to the relationships of the elements? How is the strength of
an element relative to its position on the periodic table?
32. Draw the electrons in the cloud around the nucleus. How many are required in
each field?.
33. Describe Ionic, covalent, and polar covalent bonds and give an example of each.
34. State the difference between chemical and physical change and give an example
of each.
35. What is the universal solvent, what is its formula, and how does it relate to
osmosis and diffusion?
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36. How does Darwin’s theory of evolution tie into change over time and index
fossils?
37. What is the difference between a food web and a food chain? What are the two
types of webs?
38. What causes the change of current direction in the northern and southern
hemisphere?
39. What are the zones of the ocean and how does phytoplankton play a role in this
aquatic food web?
40. What are the types of currents? Where are they located? And what affects them?
41. What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering?
42. What is the importance of a control in an experiment?
43. What is the first rule of Lab Safety?
44. List the uses of Graduated Cylinder, Balance, and Beaker.
45. What is the difference in Mitosis and Meiosis? List the steps of each.
46. Explain Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration and the formulas for each.
47. Explain the different types of symbiosis.
48. What is the difference between producer, consumer and decomposer and how
does it relate to a food web or chain.
49. What is deforestation?
50. How will global warming affect us in the future?
51. Tell the 3 types of rocks and their location.
52. Tell the treatments for: Measles, Chicken Pox, Polio, Aids, Cancer, Tuberculosis,
common cold?
53. What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?