1.
What is a seismograph?
How does it work? How is it
used?
2.
Why do you think at least three seismography stations are needed
to identify where an earthquake occurred?
3.
How does the observer use a seismograph to determine how far
away an earthquake actually is?
4.
How are the strengths of earthquakes measured?
5.
What are the earth layers?
How do earthquake shockwaves travel through these layers? What is “the Shadow Zone” and “the
Moho”? (4.1 and 10.4)
6.
What is the difference between a tectonic dome and a plutonic
dome? (11.3)
7.
What is a caldera? How
does it differ from a “normal” volcano? (9.3)
8.
What are the differences and similarities between divergent,
convergent, and transform boundaries? (8.2)
9.
Why do an ocean floor and a continental land mass often form
volcanoes when they converge? What
other characteristics do these areas have? Name the type convergent boundary
this is. (8.1-8.2)
10.
What happens when two continental land masses converge? Why? Name the type of convergent boundary
this is. (chapter 8 and 11.2)
11.
What is Pangaea and what happened to it? (8.4)
12.
How were the Apalachian Mountains formed?
13.
What is Mantle Convection and what type of plate boundaries does
it cause? (8.2 and 8.3)
14.
How are the Hawaiian Islands formed? What type of “spot” is under the islands? (9.1)
15.
Name three types of magma and six characteristics about
each. (9.2)
16.
What is air pressure and how does it cause wind? (19.1)
17.
What is the Coriolis Effect on Wind? What causes the Jet Stream?
(19.2)
18.
What are the trade winds?
What are the doldrums and horse latitudes? (19.3)
19.
Why do winds blow inland during the day and to sea at night?
(19.4)
20.
What are the atomic number, symbol, name, and atomic mass of an
atom? What do they represent? (5.1)
21.
What are compounds? What
are covalent bonds, ionic bonds, and metallic bonds? (5.1)
22.
What are the most prevalent elements in minerals in the earth’s
crust? (5.2)
23.
How are luster, streak, hardness, and specific gravity used to
identify minerals? Describe each. (5.3)
24.
Describe the difference between graphite and diamonds. They are both made from carbon. Why is one so much harder than the
other? (5.2)
25.
What are nanotubes and how are they used? (Science and Technology section after chapter
5.2)
26.
What did you like best about this class during the year?
27.
What did you learn, that you did not know previously, in this
class?
28.
Do you have any suggestions on how to make this class better?
29.
What plans do you have for this summer? Will you be doing anything in which you
could do any mathematical calculations that you learned this year?
30. What are your
plans for next year?