Earth/Space
Honors Final Exam Review Guide 03-04
NAME: __________________________________________
1. To ensure that you have a valid experiment, it must be __________.
2. Which of the following is an example of science being performed?
3. What is a hypothesis?
4. What is the first step in solving a problem in a scientific way?
5. How often are scientific theories proved wrong?
6. What is the goal of science?
7. What is meteorology?
8. You are conducting an experiment to discover which brand of mosquito repellent works best. In this experiment, the brand of mosquito repellent is the __________.
9. What happens when there's bias in an experiment?
10. Which of the
following is an example of technology?
11. What can cause an experiment to be inaccurate?
12. Why do experiments use controls?
13. The difference between a theory and a law is that ___________.
14. What is the correct approach to doing science?
15. Why is scientific information published in journals?
16. Why do scientists perform experiments?
17. Cumulous clouds are associated with __________.
18. What causes wind?
19. What does water vapor condense around to form clouds?
20. Stratus clouds form __________.
21. What causes low-pressure winds to swirl in a counter-clockwise
direction?
22. What is the difference between a
tornado and a hurricane?
23. What element of air determines its temperature?
24. Of the four main types of precipitation, which refreezes after
melting near the ground?
25. An anemometer measures_____.
26. Meteorologists refer to some floods as flash floods because
__________.
27. ____ is the measure of amounts of moisture in the air compared to
the amount needed for saturation at a certain temperature.
28. What type of clouds form thunderstorms?
29. When two air masses of different densities collide, it's called__________.
30. The term stationary front describes a front __________.
31. In what ways does the Sun influence
weather?
32. The prefix cirro added to the suffix cumulus, cirrocumulus, refers
to __________.
33. What three aspects of a climate are considered in the climate
classification system?
34. A(n) __________ is something that helps an organism survive in its
environment.
35. The northern hemisphere experiences
__________ when it's tilted __________ the sun.
36. __________ are dark areas on the surface of the sun.
37. Greenhouse gases are __________.
38. Climate is the pattern of __________ in an area over many
years.
38. __________ are commonly found on the __________ sides of mountains.
39. Why doesn't air in the mountains absorb heat as well as air found at
sea level?
40. Why do warm currents begin near the equator?
41. Ice ages alternate with
__________.
42. Seasons are caused by
__________.
43. A direct result of global warming,
as opposed to an indirect result, is __________.
44. A cause of climatic change that happens over a long period of time
is __________.
45. Regions with a __________ closer to the equator receive more solar
radiation.
46. As air rises and cools it releases __________.
47. When an area on Earth experiences
winter, that part of the Earth is _________.
48. What is a magnetic field reversal?
49. How do scientists explain the formation of underwater mountain
ranges?
50. What tool does a scientist use to detect magnetic fields?
51. How do scientists use sound waves to figure out the shape of the
ocean floor?
52. What is a transform boundary?
53. What does plate tectonics cause?
54. What do scientists believe is the force behind the plate
tectonics theory?
55. A divergent boundary is a boundary between two plates that
__________.
56. How can Earth's plates move?
57. What happens when an oceanic plate converges with a continental
plate?
58. What clue supported the continental
drift theory?
59. What are strike-slip faults?
60. What is the lithosphere?
61. How does the Mesosaurus fossil
evidence support the continental drift theory?
62. What is the plate tectonic
theory?
Clues to Earth’s Past
63. What mathematical principle does radiometric dating use to help
determine the absolute ages of rocks?
64. What does a paleontologist study?
65. The relative age of something is __________.
66. Why do many organisms leave carbonaceous
films as evidence of their lives?
67. Why do trace fossils provide so much information about how an
organism lived?
68. Rocks that can be dated radiometrically are mostly __________.
69. What geological theory has fossil evidence supported?
70. How did trilobite eyes develop?
71. Where did the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere come from
originally?
72. Which of the following is a species
common during the Paleozoic Era?
73. __________ are ancestors of reptiles.
74. The longest section of Earth's history was __________.
75. What occurs at the end of a
geologic era?
76. What is organic evolution?
77. A German shepherd and a Chihuahua look different, but they can
interbreed. They are __________.
78. During the first billion years of Earth's history, ___________.
79. Which of the following is an
example of how a new species can develop in nature?
80. Which of the following is an
example of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection?
81. When did Pangaea break up?
82. The Appalachian Mountains, an old
mountain range, was formed during what era?
83. Two organisms look alike but they
do not interbreed naturally. They are __________.
84. What is an example of an index
fossil?
85. Order the divisions of geologic
time from the longest to the shortest.
86. What was Pangaea?
87. What does the name trilobite mean?