Mrs. Walker\’s Lessons

CHAPTER 6 STUDY GUIDE1. How does temperature and salinity effect deep currents?2. Explain how currents can turn over when traveling.3. Explain the 3 factors that affect surface currents.4. If you lived in California at the 40 degree North latitude line and your parents lived in New York at the same latitude line, how would your climates differ due to the currents traveling along the coast?5. Draw a diagram to show the Earth, moon, and sun during a spring tide and a neap tide.6. Draw a wave and label the crest, trough, wave length, wave height, rest point, and amplitude.7. What is the difference between a storm surge and a tsunami?8. What is happening to the Earth during a high and low tide?9. What is the difference between a break and a whitecap?10. Does a wave actually move across the ocean? Why or why not?11. What happens to the wave height when a wave comes near the shore?12. When is the tidal range the greatest? During the spring or neap tide?13. What did you learn from the Timing the Tides activity? Explain your answer.14. If the moon is full tonight, when will the next neap tide occur?

CHAPTER 7 STUDY GUIDE1. Why is Iceland warmer than Greenland?2. WHat causes the seasons?3. What are the latitude lines for the Polar zone, temperate zone, and tropical zone?4. When do the polar zones experience 24 hours of darkness? 24 hours of daylight?5. How does latitude affect climate?6. What can cause a microclimate?7. What biomes make up the tropical zone? Temperate zone? Polar zone?8.Why does warm air rise?9. If we have summer, the Southern Hemisphere has _________________.10. Explain the theories of the ice age (Milankovich, plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions).11. What determines a climate zone?12. What determines the different biomes?13. What are some consequences of global warming?Study your bellringers for questions related to the following:- Biome Business on pages 192-193- Difference between weather and climate- How Earth’s tilt affects climate and seasons- changes in climate on Earth- outcomes of climate changes in regions- The Day After Tomorrow- Latitude, surface currents, geography, and winds

CHAPTER 9 STUDY GUIDE1. Know all the moon phases in order and be able to label them correctly. Use the diagram in the book.2. Be able to draw a solar and lunar eclipse diagram.3. Know all the terrestrial planets and gas giants.4. Know all the planets in order in the solar system.5. Know the difference between the Kuiper Belt and asteroid belt and where they are located.6. What is the difference between a gibbous moon and a crescent moon?7. What is the difference between waxing and waning?8. What is Pluto composed of?9. Which planet has the Great Red Spot?10. Which planet is tipped on its side?11. What is the difference period of rotation, period of revolution, prograde rotation, and retrograde rotation?12. What is the difference between a meteor, meterorite, and a meteoroid?13. Draw and label the 3 parts of a crater: ejecta, rim, and rays.14. Which planets have no moons?15. What are Saturn’s rings made of?16. What is the name of Earth’s moon?17. What color is the moon during a lunar eclipse?

CHAPTER 5 STUDY GUIDE

1. Know the difference between uniformitarianism and catastrophism.

2. Understand superposition and how it relates to the geologic column.

3. Know the difference between relative dating, absolute dating, and radiometric dating.

4. Why do scientists use radiometric dating?

5. How does half-life relate to radioactive decay?

6. How can an index fossil assist a geologist in idenitifying the age of a rock layer?

7. Know how to read the geologic time scale on page 130.

8. What is the difference between eon, era, period, and epochs.

9. Be able to identify the following disturbances in rock layers: intrusion, unconformity, faulting, tilting, folding, and how erosion aids in unconformities.

10. Draw a line graph to represent the half-lives of an unstable isotope. The entire isotope is 100. Each dot on the line graph will represent that the isotope has reached a half-life.

11. Recall the edible geologic column you made in class. Be able to explain the types of disturbances in your geologic column.

12. Explain the challenge you faced with the penny lab. What made the activity difficult?

13. Be able to explain all the types of fossils in section 4. You may be asked to draw a picture or explain each one.

1. The diagram above is an example of what?

2. What type of organism does each picture represent?

3. What are the 5 levels of the environment?

4. Be able to identify an example of each type of organism: Producer, Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore, Scavenger, and Decomposer.

5. What is the difference among the 3 types of symbiotic relationships? (mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism)

6. What happened to your wolf pack in the activity “Survival is Just a Roll of the Dice?” How could humans change that?

7. What type of adaptations does a turtle have?

8. Explain the difference between biotic and abiotic.

9. What would make the mark-recapture method more effective in the “Capture the Wild Bean” activity?

10. Explain the difference between a food web and food chain.

11. Understand how to read a food pyramid.

12. What is the difference between a predator and a prey? Give an example.