Daily warm-ups
This is the first task you do when you come to class. The questions will either be a review of material already covered or a preview of items that we will be looking at in the future. Please make sure you have a proper heading and that you write neatly. Write down both the day and the number of the question. You will put one week's worth of questions on one sheet of paper. The warm-ups are normally turned in on Wednesday. To receive full credit, you must have complete answers and complete sentences. Some questions have more than one part - each part must be answered for complete credit. We will discuss these questions after everybody has a chance to write their answer down. If your answer is wrong, please correct it before you turn it in.
What is a warm-up?
How do I receive full credit?
When do I turn the completed warm-ups in?
What is a hypothesis? (ch. 1)
What is geology?
What is oceanography?
What is a hydrothermal vent?
What is meteorology?
What is a weather forecast? Why is it important?
What is astronomy?
What is the SI system? (pg. 22)
What are the SI units for length, volume, mass, and temperature?
What is the difference between liters and cubic meters?
At what temperatures does water freeze and boil in both Celsius and Fahrenheit?
Describe two benefits of using the SI system.
What is a crystalline structure? (p. 60)
What is a mineral?
What is an atom?
What is a compound?
What is a silicate mineral? (p. 62)
What is the difference between fracture and cleavage?
What is the difference between streak and color? Which one is better in identifying minerals?
What is a pluton? (p. 69)
What is ore?
What is reclamation? (p. 71)
What are nonrenewable resources?
What is the difference between surface mining and deep mining?
What is rock? (p. 80)
Name two examples of how rock can be valuable.
What is magma?
What is igneous rock?
What is sedimentary rock?
What is metamorphic rock?
What is intrusive igneous rock?
What is extrusive igneous rock?
What is clastic sedimentary rock? (p. 92)
What is chemical sedimentary rock?
What is organic sedimentary rock?
What is uniformitarianism? (p. 134, chapter 6)
What is catastrophism?
What is relative dating?
What is superposition?
What is an unconformity?
What are isotopes?
What is "half-life?" How is it important?
What is the difference between relative and absolute dating?
What is the lithosphere? (page 168)
What is the asthenosphere?
What is the mesosphere?
What is continental drift?
What is a tectonic plate?
What is a subduction zone?
What is a convergent boundary?
What causes sea-floor spreading?
What is compression? (p. 181)
What is the difference between compression and tension?
What is folding?
Name three types of faults.
What is deformation. (Chapter 8, p. 197)
What is elastic rebound?
What are P waves?
What are S waves?
What is the epicenter?
What is the Richter scale?
What is the gap hypothesis? (p. 207)
What is the Moho?
What is the shadow zone?
What is the difference between lava and magma? (chapter 9, page 222)
What is pyroclastic material?
What are the three basic types of volcanoes? (p. 228)
What is the crater?
What is a caldera?
What is a rift?
What is the "Ring of Fire?"
What are mantle plumes? (p. 233)
What is the difference between an extinct and a dormant volcano?
What is a hot spot?
How is a shield volcano different from a composite volcano?
What is pillow lava?
What is the difference between pyroclastic material and lava?
Why is measuring volcanic gases important?
What is Pahoehoe? In what type of volcano do you find it?
What is weathering? (Chapter 10, page 246)
What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering?
What is acid precipitation?
What is oxidation? What can you see that tells you that oxidation is happening?
What is differential weathering?
What is the difference between topsoil and humus?
What do contour plowing and terracing have in common? (page 261)
What is the difference between an hypothesis and an observation?
In an experiment, what are the controlled variables?
In an experiment, what is the manipulated variable?
In an experiment, what is the responding variable?
Why should you repeat an experiment at least three times?
What causes air pressure? (p. 393)
Describe three things that can happen to radiation when it reaches the Earth's atmosphere. (p. 398)
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What are the four layers of the atmosphere?
What is ozone and where is the ozone layer located?
What is humidity? (p. 424)
How do you measure relative humidity?
What is the dew point?
What do the prefixes cirro, alto, and strato mean?
How does a cloud form?
What is condensation?
What are the four major forms of precipitation?
What is a front? What are the four types of fronts?
What do mP, cP, mT, and cT stand for?
What is lightning?
What is an anemometer? (p. 441)
Describe the eye wall of a hurricane. (p. 438)
How is weather different than climate? (p. 452)
Why are there temperature differences at different latitudes?
What are prevailing winds?
How does geography affect climate?
What is a biome?
Describe a chaparral region.
Describe a taiga region.
What are glacial periods?
Sometimes astronomy is called the 'original science.' Why?
Who was Galileo Galilei? Why was he important?
What is the difference between a refracting and reflecting telescope? (p. 497)
What is a nebula? (p. 510)
What is the difference between a planetesimal and a planet?
What is Kepler's First Law of Motion? (p. 516)
What is the photosphere of the sun?
How is Earth's first atmosphere different than our current atmosphere? (pp. 526 and p. 528)
What is the astronomical unit (AU)? (p. 538)
List the four inner planets. Which one is closest to the sun?
List the five outer planets. Which one is the biggest?
What is the difference between a meteoroid, meteorite, and meteor?