Mrs. Beam's Earth Science final exam review

What was your favorite unit?  

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

What is the relationship between science and technology?  

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

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

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

This is the layer of the atmosphere that contains weather?  

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

What is the atomic number of Boron?  

Which type of graph should be used to compare data?  

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

How many stars are in our solar system?  

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

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

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

What is transpiration? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the age of the universe? 

How do new stars form?  

How many protons does the element boron have?  

What are the main gases in the atmosphere?  

What group of stars are hot and dim?  

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

What type of plate boundary forms continental mountain ranges?  

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

How many electrons does the element boron contain?  

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

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

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

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

What is the number of neutrons for the element Boron? 

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

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

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

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

convert the following:  55 mm =   _______cm 

What does a blue shift mean?  

What is the control variable in an experiment?  

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

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

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

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

Who first proposed the heliocentric model of the universe?  

What is the element name?

What is the volume of the marble? 

How is ozone created naturally in the atmosphere?  

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

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

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

What plate boundary causes earthquakes in California?  

What is the atomic mass of Boron?  

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

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

What rock type are oceanic crusts primarily made of?  

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

What energy is produced by stars?

This is the most common rock type on the surface.

Which liquid in the column is the most dense?  

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

What type of plate boundary demonstrates seafloor spreading?  

Which is larger, galaxy or a solar system? 

What type of heat transfer travels by electromagnetic waves?  

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

Convert the following:  5000 g =  _____________Kg 

What element is known to destroy ozone molecules? 

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

What type of  scientist studies atoms, elements and compounds?  

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

Where are most stars located?  

What is a cloud?  

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

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

What is the approximate age of the earth?  

What kind of heat transfer method moves by densities differences? 

What does red shift mean? 

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

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

Which is larger, the universe or a galaxy? 

What is the logical approach to problem solving called?