20 Questions

Here are 20 questions to help you as you complete your studying for the final exam.

1) What is natural vegetation?
2)The solid matter carried by a stream is called ____________
3) Landforms shaped by running water are called_____________
4)True or False the United States currently does not have any active volcanoes?
5)Seismic Sea Waves are also known as?
6) What affects the availability and distribution of ground water?
7) Can you describe the Rock Cycle?
8) Define the term Rock. What are the three major classes of Rock?
9)What is the Earth’s crust?
10)The layers of the earth’s interior include the _______, _______, ______ ______ _______ , and the _______ ______ _____.
11)What is an earthquake? Where do they occur?
12)The ___________, the outermost shell of the rigid, brittle rock, includes the crust and an upper layer of the mantle.
13) Where is the Sahara Desert located?
14)The two basic tectonic processes are _____________ and ______________.
15) Biogeography is the combination of ___________ and geography.
16) How does a foodweb work?
17) What is the scientific study of land forms?
18) What is soil? Why is it a valuable natural resource?
19) ___________ is the general term applied to the combined action of all processes that cause rock to disintegrate physically and decompose chemically because of exposure near the earth’s surface.
20)What are long, narrow bodies of flowing water occupying a trench-like depression, or channel, and moving to lower levels under the force of gravity?

Feel free to email me with any questions.

Chapters 8-10

I hope that you all benefited from our review last night. Here's the post of the vocab for the chapter 8-10. I will also email around a study guide with all terms tonight. All terms have been on the blog this is just giving you the entire list in one place.

I will also include the things you need to know for the 2 diagrams on the exam.

Thanks & Happy Studying!!

Chapter 8:

biogeography
food web
primary producers
photosynthesis
biomass
habitat
biodiversity

Chapter 9:

Natural Vegetation
Biome
Savanna Biome
Desert Biome

Chapter 10:

Soil
Parent Material
Soil Texture
Water Use

Monday May 4th: Class at 7pm

Class,

Tonight's class will be pushed back until 7pm. We will still have our review in class. An extra 30 minutes to study for the quiz!

Thanks,

T. Silwick