1. 6th Grade Earth Science Quiz Review
Chapter 1 & 2:

2. Twenty Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

3. 1. List the components of the scientific inquiry process
Posing Questions
Developing a hypothesis
Designing an experiment
Collecting and Interpreting Data
Drawing Conclusions
Communicating

4. 2. What are the various ways you can make an observation
2. What are the various ways you can make an observation? (Hint: senses)
Sight
Taste
Hear
Touch
Smell

5. 3. What are you doing when you are “inferring”?
You are using clues and facts to explain something.

6. 4. What’s the difference between a manipulated variable and responding variable?
Manipulated variable – what you are changing (just 1)
Responding variable – Things that happen/change due to the manipulated variable.
EXAMPLE: Hulk and Black Widow

7. 5. What is this graph about?

8. 6. What can you learn from this graph?
New mexico

9. 7. What are the 3 big ideas in Earth Science?
Structure of the Earth System
Earth’s History
Earth in the Solar System

10. 8. What are the 4 spheres of Earth?
Lithosphere – Rocky outer layer
Biosphere – all living things
Hydrosphere – water (oceans, lakes, rivers, ice)
Atmosphere – outermost sphere - gases

11. 9. What are the 5 branches of earth science?
Geology – solid earth
Oceanography – earth’s oceans
Meteorology – earth’s atmosphere, climate
Astronomy – universe beyond earth
Environmental science – earth’s environment and resources

12. 10. List 4 different landforms
Hills
Valleys
Mountains
Rivers
Delta
Plains

13. 11. What is the different between a mountain and a plateau?
Type the answer here.

14. 12. In which regions would we find high elevation and high relief?
Type the answer here.

15. 13. In which regions would you find low elevation and low relief?
Type the answer here.

16. 14. What goes in each blank? Type the answer here. Prime Meridian
Western
Equator
Prime meridian
Equator
Western hemisphere

17. 15. Which city do you find at 30°N and 90°W?
New Orleans

18. 16. What are the coordinate points of Toronto (Canada)?
Type the answer here.
44°N 80°W
44N 80 W

19. 17. What is the difference between a globe and map?

20. 18. What are the differences between the Mercator, Equal-Area, and Conic Projections?

21. 19. Theses are lines of ____________
Latitude

22. 20. These are lines of ____________
longitude