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Earth Science Final Review

Format

True/False – 18 (1 point each)

Multiple Choice – 35 (1 point each)

Interpreting Diagrams – 10 (3 points each)

Short Answer – 4 (3 points each)

Essay – 1 of 3 (5 points each)

Notes, Handouts, Worksheets

Chapter 8 – Weathering and Soil Formation

Chapter 9 – Erosion and Deposition

Chapter 10 – A Trip Through Geologic Time

Chapter 11 – Energy Resources

Chapter 12 – Fresh Water

Chapter 13 – Ocean Motions

Chapter 14 – Ocean Zones

Chapter 15 – The Atmosphere

Chapter 16 – Weather Factors

Chapter 17 – Weather Patterns

Chapter 18 – Climate and Climate Change

No Notes – Handouts and Worksheets

Chapter 19 – Earth, Moon, and Sun

Chapter 20 – The Solar System

Chapter 21 – Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe

Key Terms, Themes, and

Miscellaneous Good Times

Erosion vs. weathering

Sediment

Vertebrates vs. Invertebrates

Mass movement

Creep

Orbital vs. Escape Velocity

Food Web

Rivers and Sediment

Paleontologist

How to date rocks

Carbon 14

Index fossils

Fossils - Types

Absolute vs. Relative Age

Cambrian Explosion

Wetlands, Types and Importance

Hurricane

Irrigation

SCATTERING ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Condensation

Wavelength vs. Waveheight

Water Cycle

Tides and th eMoon

Meander / Ox Bow Lake

Currents vs. Jet Streams

Salinity of water

Lightening

Winds

Watershed

Trench, Mid-Ocean Ridge, Abyssal Plain

Air Masses

Forms of Precipitation

Formation of clouds

Greenhouse Effect

Maritime vs. Continental

Polar vs. Tropical

Heat Transfer

Radiation, Convection

Coriolis effect

Revolution vs. Rotations

Extrusion vs. Intrusion

Chlorofluorocarbons

Constellations

Apollo

Galileo, Brahe, Ptolemy, Copernicus

Geocentric vs. Heliocentric

Terrestrial vs. Gas Giants

Life Elsewhere?

“Goldilocks conditions” For Life

Pulsar vs. Quasar

Absolute vs. Apparent Brightness

Prominence vs. Solar Flare

Light Year

This Study-Guide is the bare minimum you need to know to pass this test. If you would like to make a better grade than a 70, you should use these terms as a starting off point for your review.

8th Grade Social Studies Final Review

Format

25 True-False (1 point)

25 Multiple Choice (1 point)

1 Essay (50 points)

Note Titles

After Reconstruction

The Progressive Era

Turn of the Century

World War I

After the War

Great Depression

New Deal

World War II

The Cold War

Civil Rights Movement

Politics 1945-1970

Vietnam War

Social Change in the 1960s

Key Terms, People, Fun, Themes

“Remember the Maine”

U.S. Neutrality in World War I

Spanish-American War (Guam, PR)

Causes of World War I

Russian Revolution and WWI

Hoovervilles

Eleanor Roosevelt

Huey Long

18^th Amendment

Causes of the Great Depression

FDIC

The New Deal

“Peace in our time”

World War II

Causes of World War II

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Japanese Internment

Germany Invasions

Pearl Harbor

Baby Boom

Cuban Missile Crisis

Levittown

Korean War, DMZ

Double-V Campaign

James Meredith

Voting Rights Act

Civil Rights Act

Barry Goldwater

Equal Rights Amendment

French Indochina

Cambodia, Laos

Earth Day

EPA

Guerilla Warfare

Avoiding Service in Vietnam

Containment Policy

Fannie Lou Hamer

George Wallace

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Emmett Till Murder

Civil Rights / Cold War

Lyndon B. Johnson

War on Poverty

Southern Strategy

Essay – You will not be allowed to have notes for the test, but you can practice writing this essay in five paragraph form.

What does it mean to be an American? Did this definition change throughout the twentieth century? Give at least three instances you consider “defining moments” of American identity in the twentieth century.

Sample Outline

I. Introduction

II. Defining Moment I

III. Defining Moment II

IV. Defining Moment III

V. Conclusion

5th Grade - 20th Century Study Guide

Test Format

20 – Multiple Choice

10 – Matching

2 of 3 – Short Answer

Keywords

World War I

Alliances

Allied Powers

Axis (Central) Powers

Trenches

No-Man’s-Land

Causes

Zimmerman Telegram

Treaty of Versailles

Great Depression

Causes

Effects

hoboes

Speculators

Franklin Roosevelt

Housing and Clothing

Hoovervilles

Dust Bowl

Education

World War II

Axis Powers

Allied Powers

Hitler’s Beliefs

Rosie the Riveter

Pearl Harbor (Date)

Holocaust

Harry Truman

End of the War

Atomic Bomb

June 6, 1944

7th Grade - Civil War Study Guide

Test Format

10-10-10-1

Key Terms, Etc.

Order of Secession

Why?

SC?

1860 Election

Major candidates

Joseph Johnston

600,000

Andersonville

First Bull Run

Henry Wirz

Elizabeth Blackwell

Emancipation Proclamation

Anaconda Plan

Antietam

Lincoln’s Assassination

Appomattox Courthouse

54^th Massachusetts

Gettysburg

Border States

Chancellorsville

European Support?

Fort Sumter

13^th Amendment

Prisoner Exchange?

Vicksburg

Ulysses S. Grant

William T. Sherman

Battle of Atlanta

Capitals

Northern Advantages

Southern Advantages

Date of Lee’s Surrender

Slavery?

Worst Battle?

Turning Point?

West or East?

Fist Battle? Last?

Insurrection or War?