Final Exam Review

Vocabulary Section

Review Day 1

1. An _______ is the smallest particle of matter.

2. In a _________ front the position of the front does not move.

3. The continuous processes that cause rocks to change make up the ______.

4. _________ is the warming of the upper atmosphere.

5. __________ is the air portion of Earth.

1. __________ is a meteoroid that actually reaches Earth.

2. ________ clouds are best described as sheets or layers that cover much or all of the sky.

3. ________ is the portion of Earth that is able to support life.

4. ________ is the layer of the geosphere where mining occurs.

5. ________ is a layer of organic matter that holds moisture in the soil.

Review Day 21. A _______ occurs when the moon moves in a

line directly between Earth and the Sun, it causing a dark shadow on Earth.

2. _____ is the power that falling water generates.

3. _______ are centers of high pressure.

4. A _________ forms when warm air moves into an area formerly covered by cooler air.

5. _______ organisms like algae that undergo photosynthesis.

1. ______ is a type of motion that occurs when each planet appears to stop, reverse direction for a time, and then resume and eastward motion.

2. _______ is a mixture of mineral particles or organic particles from living and decaying organisms.

3. _______ trees that shed its leaves during a particular season of the year.

4. _______ is the careful use of resources.5. _______ is simply the pressure exerted

by the weight of the air above.

Review Day 3

1. A ______ is a device used for measuring air pressure.

2. The _____ is the highest layer of the atmosphere (increased temps.).

3. ______ is the ratio of the air’s actual water-vapor content compared with the amount of water vapor air can hold at that temp. & pressure.

4. A _____ is an animal that bears live young and maintains a steady body temp.

5. Relative humidity is commonly measured by using a _________.

1. During _____ the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees AWAY from the sun.

2. ______ is a biome with a canopy of evergreen, broadleaf trees supported with an abundance of rainfall.

3. A _____ is a consumer that must go out and get its food.

4. ____ include all organisms-algae, animals, and bacteria-that drift with ocean currents.

5. Above and to the right of the main sequence in the H-R diagram lies a group of very bright stars called ____.

Review Day 4

1. _____ is the collecting and processing of using items so they can be made into new products.

2. _____ rocks that form from the cooling and hardening of magma.

3. _____ are huge cloudlike structures consisting of chromospheric gases.

4. _____ is a network of food chains representing the feeding relationships among organisms.

5. _____ means that the forces and processes that we observe today have been at work for a very long time.

1. During ____ the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees TOWARD the sun.

2. _____ is the water portion of Earth.

3. _____ are groups of stars, dust, and gases held together by gravity.

4. _____ is the heavy inner sphere of Earth (contains magma).

5. The ______ states that in an undeformed sequence of sedimentary rocks, each bed is older that the one above it and younger that the one below it.

Review Day 5

1. September 22 or 23 is the date for which ______ occurs.

2. The destruction of forests as a result of human activity is called _____.

3. A type of pollution that does have a specific point of origin _____.

4. _____ take millions of years to form and accumulate.

5. ____ are also called the northern/southern lights.

1. Patterns of stars are called _____.

2. A star’s brightness as it appears from Earth is called _____.

3. ____ are plants such as cacti, which have thick water-filled tissues.

4. ____ is harnessed by tapping natural underground reservoirs of steam and hot water.

5. ______ are organisms that cannot make their own food.

Review Day 6

1. ____ is the upper part of the ocean into which sunlight penetrates.

2. A ____ is an ecosystem with distinctive temperature, rainfall, and organisms

3. ____ when an animal is active at night and sleeps during the day.

4. ______ is frozen soil found in the Tundra.5. _____ are ecosystems in which the roots of

plants are submerged under water at least part of the year.

1. ____ is rain or snow that is more acidic than normal.

2. _____ are organisms that can make their own food.

3. _____ are animal-like plankton including the larval stages of marine animals.

4. ____ is the lower part of the ocean which sunlight does NOT penetrate.

5. ____ are Grasslands of short bunchgrassses.

Review Day 7

1. ____ trees that produce seed cones.2. The moon is eclipsed when it moves within

Earth’s shadow, producing a ________.3. The _____ - Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars –

are relatively small and rocky.4. ____ is a type of rock that forms from

sediments.5. ____ is a series of different organisms that

transfer food between the trophic levels of an ecosystem.

1. When two air masses meet they form a ______.

2. An ____ is a producer that can make its own food.

3. ___ are violent windstorms that take the form of a rotating column of air.

4. _____ can be replenished over fairly short time spans.

5. ______ describes organisms living on or in the ocean.

Review Day 81. A ____ is an ecosystem in which there is

more water than in a desert. (Abundance of grasses)

2. A _____ is a natural structure built on a continental shelf.

3. _____ are tropical or subtropical grasslands ranging from dry scrub-land to wet open woodland.

4. ____ are fast-moving rivers of air.

5. _____ are whirling tropical cyclones.

1. ____ are small rocky bodies found between Mars & Jupiter.

2. ____ are pieces of rocky and metallic materials held together by frozen gases, such as water, ammonia, methane, etc.

3. ____ are organisms that consume the bodies of dead organisms and other organic wastes.

4. ____ is an area that is claimed as a living space by an organism.

5. The ______ is the lowest layer of the atmosphere (where we live).

Review Day 9

1. The amount of water vapor in air is called ____.

2. _____ is a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.

3. The ____ is a scale that divides Earth’s 4.56 billion year old history into units that represent specific amounts of life.

4. The ____ radiates most of the sunlight we see and can be thought of as the visible “surface” of the sun.

5. A _____ is a land dwelling animal of the Mesozoic Era.

1. ___ is the layer of the atmosphere that protects us from UV rays from the sun.

2. ____ clouds are high, white, and thin.

3. Meteoroids that vaporize, enter Earths atmosphere and then bun up is called _____.

4. A ____ is a storm that generates lightning and thunder.

5. An ___ occurs when an active cold front overtakes a warm front.

Review Day 10

1. ____ is an immense body of air that is characterized by similar temps. and amounts of moisture.

2. ____ clouds consist of rounded individual cloud masses.

3. ____ is a layer of the atmosphere that protects us from meteoroids.

4. _____ is any hydrocarbon that may be used as a source of energy.

5. ____ is the study of Earth.

1. ____ is the turning or spinning of a body on its axis. (causes day and night)

2. The streams of protons/electrons that boil from the corona make up the ____.

3. ____ are grasslands characterized by rolling hills, plains and sod-forming grasses.

4. ____ is a science that deals with weather and climate.

5. Under extreme pressure and temperature conditions, ______ rocks form.