MID TERM STUDY GUIDE
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Identify and describe surface and subsurface events in the rock cycle.
Weathering, Erosion and the Rock Cycle (tutorial)
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Explain how rocks move through the rock cycle.
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Identify and describe how the three main types of rocks are formed.
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Give examples of the three types of rocks formed through the rock cycle.
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Describe human impact on Earth.
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Provide evidence of the effect of human impact on the Earth in relation to surface and subsurface events.
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Identify and describe the layers of Earth.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Describe that heat flows in convection currents within the layers of the earth.
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Describe how Earth’s crust is broken into sections (plates) that “float” on top of the convection currents.
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Explain how convection currents in the mantle, and density differences between layers of the Earth, cause tectonic plates to move.
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Name the types of plate boundaries; describe the movement of the plates at each boundary, and the events that occur there.
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Explain how heat flow and the movement of crustal plates causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (fast changes) and creates mountains and ocean basins (slow changes).
Ocean Vents and Underwater Volcanoes
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Describe how events like tilting, folding, faulting, and intrusions can disturb rock layers.
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Identify the methods scientists use to date rocks.
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Explain how and when scientists calculate the absolute age of rocks.
Hey Rock. How Old Are You (tutorial)
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Explain how and when scientists use the law of superposition (relative age) to date rocks
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Describe how physical evidence from relative and absolute dating is used to support the idea that Earth has changed over time.
Fossils: Evidence of Evolution
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Explain that every organism inherits a set of instructions that determines its traits (each individual is unique).
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Identify the base pairs of DNA and describe how they match up.
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Explain the relationship between genes, DNA and chromosomes.
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Compare sexual reproduction requiring meiosis and asexual reproduction requiring mitosis.
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Explain the idea of dominant and recessive alleles and how they influence the phenotype of an organism.
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Explain the difference between and organism’s genotype and phenotype.
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Use a Punnett square to determine the probability of an offspring’s genotype and phenotype.
How Mendel's Pea Plants Helped Us Understand Genetics
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Use a pedigree chart to analyze how traits have been passed down through generations.
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Explain how environmental factors and variations in a species contribute to and adaptations over time.
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Identify diversity as genetic variation through adaptation.
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Explain the process of natural selection and how it relates to the theory of evolution.
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Explain that a species inability to adapt to changing environments may lead to extinction of that species.
Do or Die: Extinction for a Change
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Cite evidence in the fossil record that shows that living things have evolved over time.