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Basilio Final Review
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35
Science
6th Grade
06/10/2013

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What is rotation? What does it cause?  How long does it take on earth?
Definition

Planets spin on an imaginary axis like a top. 

 

 This causes day and night it takes 24 hours for the earth to complete one rotation.

Term
What is a revolution?  What does it cause?  How long does it take on earth?
Definition

A planet's movement around the sun. 

 

 Revolutioin along with the tilt of the earth on its axis causes seasons

 

It takes the earth 12 months to complete one revolution. 

Term
What is renewable energy?  List 3 examples.
Definition

A natural, non-polluting energy source with an unlimited supply

 

Geothermal - uses heat from inside the earth

Solar - sun

Wind - windmills

Term
What is nonrenewable energy? Give three examples.
Definition

An energy source wih a limited suppply that does not replenish itself

 

Example:  Oil, natural gas, coal (FOSSIL FUELS)

Term
What is potential energy?  Give an example.
Definition

Energy stored by an object based on its position.

 

Example:  Rollercoaster sitting at the top of a hill

Term
What is kinetic energy?
Definition

Energy of an object based on its motion

 

Example:  A rollercoaster speeding down the hill.

Term
List the four tests to identify a mineral.
Definition

Color

Luster

Streak

Hardness

Term
Define Rock
Definition
A solid earth material made of various minerals
Term
What are the three types of rock
Definition

Igneous

Sedimentary

Metamorphic

Term
In which type of rock are most fossils found?
Definition
Sedimentary
Term
Define the theory of plate tectonics.
Definition
The theory that the earth's crust is made up of several plates hat are constantly moving.
Term
What are convergent plates?
Definition
Plates that move together
Term
What are divergent plates?
Definition
Plates that move apart
Term
What are transform fault boundaries?
Definition
Plates that grind or slide past each other causing earthquakes.
Term
What is the main source of oxygen in the ecosystem experiment?
Definition
The plants which give off oxygen as part of photosynthesis
Term
List the control variables in the ecosystem experiment
Definition

Control variables - what makes the test fair.  The things we keep the same every time

Example:  same amount of gravel, water that was the same temp.

Term
What is the experimental variable in the ecosystem experiment?
Definition

Experimental Variable - the one variable that is changed

Example - adding pollution to one of the ecocolumns to see how it affected the ecosystem

Term
What type of pollution is affecting the lakes in the Adirondacks?  Where is it coming from?
Definition
It is acid rain.  It comes from burning fossil fuels in factories and cars.  The pollutant goes into the air, and then falls back to earth when there is precipitation.
Term
Why is bacteria important in an ecosystem?
Definition
It acts as a decomposer, breaking down dead plants and animals and turning them into nutrients in the soil.
Term
What is an autotroph? Give an example.
Definition

An autotroph is an organism that makes its own food

Example:  algae, green plants

Term
What is a heterotroph? Give an example.
Definition
A heterotroph is an organism that must get its food by eating other living things.
Term
Describe what abiotic means.  Give an example
Definition

Non-living part of an ecosystem

Example:  Water, rocks

Term
What is the purpose of stream monitoring?
Definition
To find out if the stream is polluted or not by looking at what living things are surviving in it
Term

Which organism in this food chain is the producer?

 

grass - mosquio - frog - snake

Definition

Grass

Producer - makes its own food

 

Consumers - mosquito, frog, snake

Term
What is a dependent relationship?  Describe one in the terrarium or aquarium.
Definition

A one-way relationship where one member of an ecosystem depends on another for survival.

 

Example - Fish needs water

Term
What is an interdependent relationship?  Describe one in the terrarium or aquarium.
Definition

When two members of the ecosystem both depend on each other for survival

 

Example:  fish - needs oxygen, food - from elodea

elodea - need carbon dioxide - from fish

Term
Describe what biotic means.  Give an example
Definition

Living part of an ecosystem

Example:  Bacteria, rat, fish

Term
Illustrate the water cycle.  Include the sun, evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
Definition
Term
illustrarte a land breeze, and describe the movement of warm and cold air.  When does it occur?
Definition
Term
Illustsea breeze, and describe the movement of warm and cold air.  When does it occur.
Definition
Term
Define and illustrate a front.
Definition
Term
Diagram weather symbols including a cold front, warm front, stationary front, and occluded front.  how do we know which way the front is moving on a weather map?
Definition
Term
What are the layers of the atmosphere?  In which layer does weather occur?
Definition
Term
Why does a hurricane form?
Definition
Term
When and where do most tornadoes occur?
Definition
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