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Ag Integrated Science EARTH UNIT TEST STUDY GUIDE
Worth 10 Points
ü Earth’s Interior & Plate Tectonics Quiz
ü Earthquake & Waves Quiz
ü Volcano Notes
ü Evolution Notes (Natural Selection)
ü BioGeo Chemical Cycles Questions Notes & Review
Ecology Notes: Fill in Ecological Pyramid with notes from our SAMPLE
1. Each level on the ecological pyramid below is called a ______level and only retains ____% of the energy from below it, therefore calling this the ______LAW.
2. What is an example of an animal that would be at the top of an ecological pyramid? ______
3. What is the difference between Abiotic and Biotic factors? Give an example of each.
Using the ecological pyramid, answer the questions.
4. What is the tertiary consumer? ______
5. Where does 100% of the sun’s energy go? ______
6. What is the secondary consumer? ______
7. What are the producers? ______
8. What are the primary consumers? ______
9. As you move up the pyramid what happens to the energy levels? ______
10. What are the 4 main parts to Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection?
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
11. What is the difference between O2 and O3 ? ______
12. What are 4 things scientists claim to have discovered that support Global Warming?
- ______
- ______
- ______
- ______
13. Polar Bears and Brown Bears being separated by geographic conditions is an example of what? ______.
14. What is the green pigment in plants that makes photosynthesis possible? ______
15. What greatly depletes ozone gas? ______
16. What is Nitrogen Fixation? ______
17. What are 2 things humans do that interfere with the global nitrogen cycle?
- ______(Pro / Good thing)
- ______(Bad)
- ______(Bad)
18. Why is Nitrogen important to plants and humans? ______
19. What organism is a fungus / algae that grows on bare rock and produces acids that break it down and produce soil? ______
20. What is the movement of substances such as water, carbon, and nitrogen between the tissues of living organisms and the abiotic world? ______
21. What is a caldera? ______
22. What is a guyot? ______
23. List 3 ways scientists have been able to prove that the Theory of Plate Tectonics is true.
- ______
- ______
- ______
24. The Ring of Fire is one big ______zone.
25. What major category of rock is formed from ‘weathering’ of other rocks? ______
26. The process by which gravity separates materials of different densities in the Earth is called ______.
27. Where are the heavier elements located? ______
28. What are tiny gas valves in the ocean floor that release heat and other chemicals from the Earth’s interior that makes life deep down possible? ______
29. What is the greatest unanswered question in the geological sciences? ______
30. Assuming no change in the position of the rock layers, the oldest rock will be located where? ______.
31. What type of rocks are likely to contain fossils and recycled rocks? ______
32. What type of rock is formed by rocks that undergo pressure and heating without melting to make a new rock? ______
33. What is the change in the physical form or chemical composition of rock materials from natural circumstances (wind, rain, erosion). ______
34. What is the difference between Diffraction and Refraction?
35. The Earth’s Outer Core is ______
36. What type of rock is otherwise known as volcanic rock? ______
37. What type of igneous rocks form the largest crystals? ______
38. What is the most common rock in the Earth’s crust? ______
39. What particles are in a repeating pattern they form a ______structure.
40. Diverging plates form what things? ______
41. What is the term for the role an organism plays in an environment? ______
42. Granite is an example of ______rock.
43. What is the name of the scientist that came up with a detailed hypothesis for continental drift? ______
44. In the 1960’s seafloor exploration used a fathometer to map the ______or terrain of the seafloor.
45. The ______Ridge is 19, 312 Km long. Its peaks are Iceland and the Azores.
46. The deepest earthquakes are where ______occurs. As deep as ______mi.
47. What is the difference between the Lithosphere and the Asthenosphere?
48. What type of volcano would form large gently sloping mountains? ______
49. What actually converts nitrogen gas into a usable form for us? ______
50. Where is the Earth’s internal energy from? ______
51. What are 3 main sources of heat in the inner core?
- ______
- ______
- ______
52. How are Mid Ocean Ridges formed? ______
53. What two places can ocean trenches form? ______
54. Where is the deepest ocean trench? ______
55. What are the tallest mountains in the world formed from colliding plates? ______
56. The San Andreas fault runs where? ______
57. The first layer of the atmosphere that contains all the weather is called the ______
58. What is a folded mountain and how is it formed? ______
59. The ocean floor is the deepest at the ______in the ______Ocean.
60. What is a rift valley? ______
61. How far have scientists been able to drill into the Earth’s Interior? ______
62. What is denser…oceanic or continental crust? ______which is thicker? ______
63. Longitudinal waves move ______to the direction a wave travels and Transverse waves move ______to the direction a wave travels.
64. The ozone layer is located in what ‘sphere’? ______
65. The change in frequency and pitch of a sound as an object is moving is known as ______.
66. What are 3 examples of mediums? ______
67. What evidence shows us that the Earth is made of different types of mediums? ______
68. What waves are the first to reach shock recording stations? ______
69. What are the two parts to a longitudinal wave? ______
70. Longitudinal waves move ______to the direction the wave travels.
71. Transverse waves move ______to the direction the wave travels.
72. Waves move what? ______
73. How many seismographs are there around the world? ______
74. How many readings do seismologists need to confirm the magnitude? ______
75. Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries…briefly write what happens at these:
ü DPB ______
ü TFB ______
ü CPB ______
76. Earthquakes can cause huge seismic sea waves called ______.