Mrs. Beam's Earth Science final exam review

What is the relationship between science and technology?  

In the northern hemisphere, which calendar month is represented by the diagram below? 

What is the main driving reason for all weather on the earth?  

The movement of rock during an earthquake occurs along a ..... 

What is the age of the universe? 

When a star leaves the main sequence, what does it become next? 

Which liquid in the column is the most dense?  

In the film, beyond the big bang, What theory explains the end of the Universe?  

How do we know about the inside of the earth if we have never been there?  

During what season for the northern hemisphere is the earth farthest from the sun? 

This is the major determining factor for the life of a star. 

How many protons does the element boron have?  

If you know the temperature of a star, you know its.....

What did Edwin Hubble help scientists when he created Hubble's law?  

When one oceanic plate slides under another plate and goes into the mantle forming volcanoes.

How do new stars form?  

What energy is produced by stars?

What is the atomic mass of Boron?  

What does unequal heating of earth's surface leads to differences in pressure causes?

How many electrons does the element boron contain?  

What is the volume of the marble? 

What type of scientist studies space, stars and the universe?

If a sedimentary rock heats up, melts and cools, what rock class forms? 

This is the part of the water cycle where water goes into the ground to recharge it. 

What type of plate boundary would form mountains with volcanoes and oceanic trenches? 

This is the layer of the atmosphere that contains weather?  

What is transpiration? 

Which famous scientist found evidence of fossils, rocks matching, glaciers and shapes of land?

This is the layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer. 

Which of the following answers shows an example of Quantitative data?  

What is the element name?

What type of plate boundary demonstrates seafloor spreading?  

Who was the astronomer who observed the moons of Jupiter, craters on the moon and venus phases.

What is the atomic number of Boron?  

What was your favorite unit?  

What element is known to destroy ozone molecules? 

What is the logical approach to problem solving called?  

How many stars are in our solar system?  

How does the core of the earth continue to stay so hot?  

What type of plate boundary forms continental mountain ranges?  

What is a cloud?  

Which is larger, the universe or a galaxy? 

During what season for the northern hemisphere is the earth closest to the sun? 

What variable goes on the X-axis?  (Horizontal) 

List the order of dominant life forms throughout earth's history. 

How is ozone created naturally in the atmosphere?  

What is the control variable in an experiment?  

This is the part of the water cycle that changes a liquid to a gas. 

What plate boundary causes earthquakes in California?  

Convert the following:  5000 g =  _____________Kg 

What kind of heat transfer method moves by densities differences? 

On the summer solstice, June 21st, the number of daylight hours for the northern hemisphere is

The winter solstice, Dec. 21st, the sun is directly above the ........

What does red shift mean? 

What does a blue shift mean?  

Which type of graph should be used to compare data?  

What type of model of the solar system places the sun at the center?  

What kind of heat transfer method is completed by direct contact? (molecule to molecule)

This is the layer of the atmosphere that we live in.

This is the part of the water cycle that changes a gas to a liquid.  

What is the approximate age of the earth?  

What variable goes on the y-axis? (vertical) 

What process changed Earth’s early atmosphere into an oxygen-rich atmosphere?

convert the following:  55 mm =   _______cm 

What group of stars are hot and dim?  

What are the main gases in the atmosphere?  

Which variable is the one you decided to change in the experiment to test?  

What type of heat transfer travels by electromagnetic waves?  

Which kind of graph should be used to show a trend? 

What was the major reason why Harry Hess' plate tectonics theory was accepted? 

Which is larger, galaxy or a solar system? 

Where are most stars located?  

When water freezes inside a crack in a rock and it breaks off this is due to:  

What rock type are oceanic crusts primarily made of?  

What type of model of the solar system believes that the earth is in the center?  

The summer solstice, June 21st, is when the sun is directly above the.....

This is the most common rock type on the surface.

What type of  scientist studies atoms, elements and compounds?  

What type of rock is primarily made out of continental crust?  

Which layer of the atmosphere is responsible for protecting the earth from UV radiation?

Who first proposed the heliocentric model of the universe?  

What is the number of neutrons for the element Boron? 

Which of the following answers shows an example of qualitative Data?  

Where do most volcanoes and earthquakes take place on the earth crust?  

According to the film, Beyond the big bang, what was accidentally discovered at bell labs?