Thursday, November 11, 2010

Science Exam Review

Science Review Questions:

1. What is a hypothesis?
2. What is the scientific method?
3. The scientific method, in order.
4. What is a moon?
5. What is our moon like?
6. Why do we live on Earth and not the moon?
7. How are the Earth and the moon the same?
8. How are the Earth and the moon different?
9. When did astronauts walk on the moon?
10. How long does it take the moon to rotate around Earth?
11. What is a moon phase?
12. What is the universe?
13. What is at the center of our solar system?
14. What is gravity?
15. What is a nebula?
16. What is the life of a star like?
17. How old is our sun?
18. What is light?
19. How long does it take light to reach the Earth from the sun?
20. Why should we wear white on a very hot day?
21. Why can we see things?
22. Draw a picture of the solar system with the sun, moon, asteroid belt, and all the planets.
23. What is conservation?
24. What is pollution?
25. What does it mean to reduce?
26. What does it mean to recycle?
27. What does it mean to reuse?
28. What are cells?
29. What things are made of cells?
30. What are the two types of cells?
31. Why do plant cells have a cell wall but animal cells do not?
32. Draw and label a plant.
33. How do parts of a plant help each other?
34. Explain all the steps of photosynthesis.
35. Why do plants need photosynthesis?
36. Why do plants need us?
37. Why do we need plants?
38. What is an ecosystem?
39. Describe one type of ecosystem.
40. What is a renewable resource?
41. What is a nonrenewable resource?
42. What is a fossil fuel?
43. What is energy?
44. What is kinetic energy?
45. What is potential energy?
46. What is mechanical energy?
47. What is chemical energy?
48. What is solar energy?
49. What is heat?
50. What is electricity?
51. What is static electricity?
52. What is current electricity?
53. What happens when heat is transferred through convection?
54. What happens when heat is transferred through conduction?
55. What four types of energy can electricity become?
56. Describe an electron. What is it like? What does it do?
57. Draw and label an atom.
58. Draw an electric current.
59. What is the difference between an insulator and a conductor?
60. How can we protect the environment?

Here are the links to documents that will help you:

1st term final exam: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3Gs8USRVEoYNTVhZGVhOTItMDc2MS00NWQ1LTkwODQtYWE5ZGM2NzIwMDEy&hl=en&authkey=COnYnfQE

2nd term final exam: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3Gs8USRVEoYMTAxMTI4ZDctMzMzNy00MzVmLTgzYTktMjMyNTZjZTNhZmQz&hl=en&authkey=CLvNp44E

3rd term final exam: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B3Gs8USRVEoYMjI0OTFjNGEtNDYyNy00ZTNjLTk0ZjgtYmFlMGE4YjgwM2Y5&hl=en&authkey=COOauoIH

4th term test 1

4th term quiz

Here are some other useful documents. Just click on the one you want:

Worksheet on the Scientific Method

Worksheet over Space

Science Test Study Guide from Term 1

You should also study the cells and plants we learned about. Cells are not in your book. Here is a blogpost I wrote to help you: http://hoyengradoquinto.blogspot.com/2010/09/science-exam-review.html.

Here are helpful blogposts from Term 2:
Study Guide 1: http://hoyengradoquinto.blogspot.com/2010/06/science-study-guide-part-1.html

Study Guide 2: http://hoyengradoquinto.blogspot.com/2010/06/science-study-guide-part-2extra-credit.html

Study Guide Answers: http://hoyengradoquinto.blogspot.com/2010/06/study-guide-answers.html

Here is a helpful blogpost from Term 3:

Cells and Cell Structure: http://hoyengradoquinto.blogspot.com/2010/07/cells-and-cell-structure.html

Answers to the first review will be posted at 6:30 p.m. tonight.

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