Earth Science

Students must complete the following to receive full credit:

Define Terms with examples for each term.

• Write a Summary of each video (minimum 4-6 sentences per video). (ALL NOTES MUST BE HAND WRITTEN!!!) Label clearly for teacher to see work.

• Answer Important Questions after watching the videos and taking notes.

• Take Exam at: https://testmoz.com/class/16400

Total pages (with exam):

5+ pages of work per credit

Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.

Terms to Know:

• magma

• lava

• convergent boundaries

• divergent boundaries

• subduction

• convection

• theory of plate tectonics

• magnitude

• stress

• fault

• tsunami

• strain

• seismic gap

• surface wave

Notes:

Important Questions:

1. The rigid outer layer of Earth that is broken into large slowly moving pieces is called what?

2. Which layer of the Earth is divided into tectonic plates?

3. True or False? Tectonic plates can move.

4. Earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely found in which locations?

5. True or false. Scientists can predict earthquakes.

6. A v_____________ is a type of mountain

7. A break in earth's crust is called ____________.

8. This includes all forms of water, both liquid, and solid, that form from clouds. rain, snow, sleet, hail...

9. What is the constant movement of water between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface?

10. The process of water changing from a liquid to a gas is called?

11. The sun's energy is transferred to Earth and atmosphere in 3 ways...what are they?

12. When air moves from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure this is called...

13. This is 78% Nitrogen; 21% Oxygen; 1% water vapor. What is it?

14. This is a parcel of air with certain temperature plus moisture

air + moisture + temperature

15. How does air rise and fall? What happens?

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

Work should be 5+ pages when completed for full credit.

Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.

Terms to Know:

• crust

• craton

• Archean

• glaciation

• clay minerals

• prokaryotes

• superposition

• evolution

• mold

• cast

• correlation

• key bed

• nonconformity

• amber

• dendrochronology

Notes:

Important Questions:

1. The Geologic Time Scale is a record of what?

2. How old do Paleontologists believe the Earth is?

3. Paleozoic, Mesozoic & Cenozoic are all

4. Which is the most recent era of time- the one that we are currently in?

5. True or False: Geologists subdivide periods into eras.

6. Describe how geologists separate time periods.

7. Name the 4 time frames in order from oldest to youngest.

8. Which division on the geologic time scale is the shortest?

9. The time span that lasted the longest was the...

10. The Era with the largest extinction we know of is the...

11. . The Era when humans first appeared was...

12. "age of reptiles" was what era?

13. "age of mammals" was what era?

14. "ancient life" was what era?

15. The single land mass that existed about 245 million years ago is named what?

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

Work should be 5+ pages when completed for full credit.

Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.

Terms to Know:

• Cambrian

• Paleozoic

• lagoon

• Precambrian

• organic reef

• vascular plants

• Antler Orogeny

• phytoplankton

• batholiths

• ice age

• sauropods

• mammals

• oceans

Notes:

Important Questions:

1. Trilobites were alive during the _____________.

2. This term describes high clouds with bases starting above 6000 meters (height)

3. This term describes middle clouds with bases between 2000 m to 6000 m

4. This termrefers to low clouds below 2000 m

5. This term is latin meaning "hair" describes wispy, stringy clouds

6. This term is latin meaning "pile or heap". describes puffy, lumpy-looking clouds

7. This term is latin meaning "layer" describes featureless sheets of clouds

8. This term is latin meaning "cloud". describes low, gray rain clouds

9. The most recent era in our history according to the geological time scale is:

10. What were the dominant animals of the Mesozoic Era?

11. What are the dominant animals of the Cenozoic Era?

12. During which era did the earliest dinosaurs appear?

13. What type of animal lived only during the Mesozoic Era?

14. What Era do we live in?

15. Plants and animals first reached land during the

16. Pangaea broke up during the

17. What is Pangaea?

18. During which era did the ice ages occur?

19. During which era did the mammoth live?

20. During which era did Archaeopteryx (the first bird) live?

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

Work should be 5+ pages when completed for full credit.

Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.

Terms to Know:

• air pollution

• desalination

• desertification

• natural resources

• sustainable yield

• biogas

• bitumen

• gasohol

• geothermal energy

• peat

• Carrying capacity

• state of density

• ozone

• acid precipitation

• nitrogen dioxide

• equilibrium

• growth

• collapse

Notes:

Important Questions:

1. How log ago did the dinosaurs become extinct?

2. Why is carbon such an important element?

3. What are processes that remove carbon from the atmosphere called?

4. What are processes that add carbon to the atmosphere called?

5. Which part of the carbon cycle involves animals breathing in oxygen and out carbon dioxide?

6. Which part of the carbon cycle occurs when plants or animals die?

7. Which part of the carbon cycle occurs when plants convert sunlight and C02 into oxygen and sugar?

8. Which part of the carbon cycle involves sea creatures using carbonic acid to make their shells?

9. How has man influenced the carbon cycle and increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere?

10. What cause of land pollution produces large holes in the ground and can cause erosion?

11. What cause of land pollution uses chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides?

12. What do we call large areas where garbage is placed on the land?

13. What is it called when you collect organic waste and store it so it breaks down into fertilizer?

14. Around how long does it take Styrofoam to decay and become part of the environment?

15. Around how much trash does the average person in the United States produce each day?

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

Work should be 5+ pages when completed for full credit.

Review the videos and media and take notes on terms to know. If the terms are not on the media, please Google them in order to get the materials needed to take the test.

Terms to Know:

• reflecting telescope

• albedo

• solar eclipse

• perigee

• interferometry

• corona

• solar wind

• solar flares

• Sun

• solar interior

• mass of a star

• luminosity

• constellation

• binary stars

• mare

• ejecta

• apogee

• spinoff

Notes:

Important Questions:

1. the act of rotating as if on an axis is called ___________.

2. one complete orbit around the sun is called ___________.

3. This occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow over part of Earth...

4. The blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon.

5. This is a tide with the least difference between high and low tide that occurs when the sun and moon pull at right angles to each other; occurs at the 1st and last quarter moon.

6. This is a tide with the greatest difference between low and high tides; full and new moon

7. The darkest part of a shadow in an eclipse is called ___________.

8. The partial shadow of an eclipse is called ___________.

9. This is (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe

10. This is the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion. It is called ___________.

11. An object at rest/motion will remain at rest/motion until acted upon by an outside force. What is this called?

12. What is the progression of changes in the moon's appearance during the month; new, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent; different parts of the lit portion of the moon can be seen from earth while it orbits?

13. This happens to Earth because its axis is tilted as it moves around the sun.

14. The two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north of south of the the equator (noon sun is directly overhead at 23.5 degrees; Summer solstice: June 22-longest day of the year; Winter solstice: December 22-shortest day of the year)

15. the two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun ("equal night"[day and night each about 12 hours]; noon sun is directly overhead at the equator; Vernal equinox-March 21; Autumnal equinox-September 23

16. What is the law of universal gravitation?

17. What is a measure of the force of gravity?

18. This is the dark, flat areas made from lava flows on the moon

19. This is the caused by large round pits caused by impacts of meteoroids...

20. Why is Earth Science important?

**Take exam at https://testmoz.com/class/16400

Work should be 5+ pages when completed for full credit.