EOG Review Questions Name:______
Chemistry
1. What is the importance of a control in an experiment?
2. List the uses of Graduated Cylinder, Balance, and Beaker.
3. What is the first rule of Lab Safety?
4. Draw an atom, including the nucleus and electron cloud. Where are protons, neutrons and electrons found in an atom?
5. What are the differences between periods and groups of the periodic table? How does this relate to the relationships of the elements?
6. Describe Ionic, covalent, and polar covalent bonds and give an example of each.
7. What is the law of conservation of mass and how does it relate to chemical equations? (Think reactants and products)
8. How do you successfully balance a chemical equation?
9. What is the main use for silicon?
10. State the difference between chemical and physical change and give an example of each.
11. What are the four signs of a chemical change?
12. What is the universal solvent, what is its formula, and how does it relate to osmosis and diffusion?
Energy
39. List all energy sources and the pros and cons of each.
Wind, hydroelectric, solar, geothermal, nuclear, fossil fuels.
40. How will global warming affect us in the future?
41. How is Biotechnology used in the real world?
42. How does biotechnology relate to genetic modification?
43. Why is nuclear energy a better source for cleaner air?
Water
13. What causes the difference in current direction in the northern and southern hemisphere (remember: one is clockwise, one is counterclockwise)?
14. What are the unique properties of water? How do these make water different from other substances?
15. What is surface tension?
16. What are the zones of the ocean?
17. How does phytoplankton play a role in the aquatic food web?
18. What is sonar?
19. What is Eutrophication? What causes it?
20. What is the difference between cohesion and adhesion?
21. What are aquifers & why are they important?
22. How do nitrites and nitrates differ?
23. What is turbidity?
24. What is the difference between point and non-point source pollution? What would runoff be considered?
25. What is an estuary?
26. What is the difference between permeable and impermeable soil?
27. What is a delta and where is it located?
Microbiology
28. What is the difference in Mitosis and Meiosis? List the steps of each.
29. Explain Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration and the formulas for each.
30. What are protists? List 4 of them & illustrate.
31. What is the difference between virus and bacteria? (Think: How are they treated? Are they living? How do they replicate?)
32. What does it mean to be susceptible to a disease?
33. How does exposure relate to sickness?
34. What is a pathogen? Give at least 2 examples.
35. What is the difference between a carrier and a vector?
36. What are mutagens and what do they cause?
37. Why should antibiotics be taken on time?
38. Tell the pathogen and treatments for the following diseases:
a) Malaria
b) Chicken Pox
c) Polio
d) AIDS
e) Cancer
f) Common Cold
g) West Nile Virus
39. How is biotechnology used in the real world?
40. What is genetic modification? What is one positive result of it?
Earth Science Name: ______
44. Explain the 3 different types of symbiosis.
45. What is the difference between producer, consumer and decomposer?
46. What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
47. What is deforestation?
48. What is Darwin’s theory of natural selection?
49. What is an index fossil? Why are they important?
50. What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering?
51. What are the 3 types of rocks and how are they formed?
52. What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs?
53. What is the law of superposition?
54. What is DDT & why is it dangerous?
55. In which trophic level of a food chain is the most energy found?