Term 2 Geoscience Review Guide

Term 2 ~ Geoscience Review Guide

Unit 5: Plate Tectonics

Chapter 9

1. What are the 3 major Layers of Earth?

2. What five sections can Earth be divided into?

3. What 2 layers make up the lithosphere?

4. Describe the consistency of the Asthenosphere.

5. What was Alfred Wegener’s original theory that all continents were connected called?

6. What was the name of Wegener’s super continent?

7. List 4 pieces of evidence for Continental Drift.

8. What theory replaced Continental Drift?

9. What are 3 pieces of evidence for this new theory?

10. What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?

11. What forms at continental-continental divergent boundaries?

12. What forms at transform boundaries?

13. What forms at convergent continental-continental boundaries?

14. What is the zone called where an oceanic plate dives underneath a continental plate?

15. What 2 things form at this type of zone? (From question 92)

16. What causes islands and volcanoes to form in areas that are not near plate boundaries?

Unit 6: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Mountains

Chapter 8

1.How does the Elastic Rebound Hypothesis explain earthquakes?

2.What are three types of seismic waves?

3.What are the characteristics of each wave (motion/destruction/speed)?

4.What are the three main layers of the earth?

5.What are two types of crust and their properties?

6.The earth can also be divided into five layers based on physical properties, list and describe each layer.

Chapter 10

1.Draw a diagram of a volcano and label the following features: vent, pipes, crater, caldera, plutons (sill, dike, and batholiths), magma, and lava.

2.What are the relative sizes and slopes of shield, composite, and cinder cone volcanoes?

3.What type of volcano has mild eruptions and which has violent eruptions?

4.What factors create violent eruptions?

5.What are hot spots and what type of volcano do they create?

Chapter 17

1.What are the four layer of the atmosphere? List in order from the ground up.

2.Which layers increase in temperature with increase of altitude and which decrease in temperature?

3.List at least one phenomenon that occurs in each layer (ex: weather, auroras, etc.)

4.List and describe three ways an object can respond to radiation.

5.What is the greenhouse effect and what factors will increase and decrease global warming trends?

6.What are the temperature controls we learned about? (6 of them)

Unit 7: Atmosphere

Chapter 19

1.Why are we not crushed by the atmospheric pressure?

2.What does a barometer do?

3.What is wind and describe how solar radiation creates it?

4.What three factors combine to control wind?

5.How does the Coriolis Effect affect the winds in the Northern Hemisphere?

6.How do global winds distribute heat energy around the earth?

Unit 8: Climate

Chapter 21

1. What is the relationship between solar radiation and latitude?

1. What is the relationship between elevation and climate?

1. What 2 things is the Koppen Classification system based on?

1. Draw a diagram that explains the rain shadow effect

1. How do large bodies of water influence coastal temperatures?

1. What are the latitudes for tropical, temperate, and polar zones?

Unit 9: California

Chapter 13A

1.What are two examples of CA features created by tectonic processes?

2.What are three examples of erosive agents that have formed CA’s landscape?

3.What is CA’s most valuable industrial resource?

4.What are examples of mineral resources found in CA?

5.What are CA’s major energy resources?

6.What are CA’s main sources of freshwater?

7.Why does CA need water projects?

8.What is most of CA water used for?

9.What are natural hazards formed by earthquakes?

10.What are natural hazards formed from storms?

****These questions are only the start of your studying!!! Review all information from sub-term 2!!!*****