8th Grade Semester 1 Final Review

To be caused by humans.

What type of pressure system brings poor weather?

The transfer of heat through the movement of fluids.

Warm air hold less water vapor than cold air.

What type of weather catastrophe kills the most people each year?

The amount of water on Earth does not change.

Which of these would be an example of a non-renewable resource?

When warm air or water rises at the equator, and then cools and falls at the poles.

To reuse an item for something else instead of throwing it away or getting rid of it.

The rising and falling of this is caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.

The amount of salt in a body of water.

In the Lorax the Oncer-ler demonstrated sustainable harvesting.

The layer of the atmosphere where the ozone layer is found.

Which of these is required for a snowstorm to be considered a blizzard?

Which of these items would be considered a renewable resource?

A plant or animal with a habitat restricted to one area.

How is wind formed?

When water evaporates off of the leaves of plants.

Which gas in the atmosphere blocks out some of the sun's UV rays?

A species that is native to a certain place.

Which of these would not be a good way to protect our natural resources?

The layer of Earth's atmosphere where we live.

The process of liquid water changing to a gas.

When cold air picks up warm lake water and drops it as snow on the leeward shore.

Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are examples of what?

What percentage of oxygen is found in Earth's atmosphere?

The removal of a forest for non-forest use.

Which of these is not considered weather?

What type of weather front brings thunderstorms?

The gases that trap heat in the atmosphere to keep us warm as the sun sets.

The process of the sun transferring heat to the Earth.

The process that forms clouds.

This gas makes up the majority of Earth's atmosphere.

A non-native species that negatively affects the host ecosystem.

When rocks or soils are broken down by wind or water.