Seventh GradeFinal exam study guide
This study guide will get you ready to take the Seventh Grade Final Exam, which includes questions from ecology, geology, and astronomy. Anything on this study guide can be on the test. You need to study all of it. You do not need to answer the questions in complete sentences.
Ecology
1. What does adaptation mean?
2. What is an example of an adaptation in giraffes? Why is it an adaptation?
3. What does a scavenger eat?
4. What is an example of a scavenger?
5. What is the difference between a habitat and a niche?
6. What is the habitat of a family pet?
7. What is the niche of a family pet?
8. How does the population of a predator affect the population of its prey and vice versa?
9. What are the three ways that seeds are dispersed?
10. What is the difference between migration and immigration?
11. What is a biome?
12. What are three examples of a biome?
13. What is a decomposer?
14. What is an example of a decomposer?
15. What does it mean if a species goes extinct?
16. What is the difference between threatened and endangered?
17. What does every food chain start with?
18. What are first-level consumers?
19. What does a second-level consumer eat?
20. What are owl pellets?
21. What is the difference between a herbivore and a carnivore?
22. What is the difference between a native and non-native species?
23. What is an invasive species?
Astronomy
1. What is rotation?
2. What is revolution?
3. What direction does the earth rotate?
4. What is a high tide?
5. How often does a high tide occur in one place on Earth?
6. What is a really high tide called?
7. What is a really low tide called?
8. What is the difference between a new moon and a full moon?
Geology
1. What is the difference between relative and absolute dating?
2. What is an example of relative dating?
3. What is an example of absolute dating?
4. Weathering is when nature breaks down a substance. What is the difference between chemical and physical weathering?
5. What is erosion?
6. Which mineral can be made so quickly that you can see it form with the naked eye?
7. What is the main ingredient of a rock?
8. What natural elements cause erosion?
9. What is the difference between sand and soil?
10. How does the freeze/thaw cycle break down rocks?
11. What is the nutrient that sand needs the most in order to be considered soil so plants can grow in it?
12. What is a constructive process? Be sure to give a definition and an example.
13. What is a destructive process? Be sure to give a definition and an example.
14. What are three differences between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere?
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b.
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15. Draw a picture of the rock cycle.