1. 6 TH GRADE 1 ST QUARTER EQT REVIEW

2.  What affects stream erosion? QQ

3. A:  DISCHARGE

4.  What is a bed load? QQ

5. A:  Material carried in solution in a river

6.  What drains a watershed? QQ

7. A:  A WATER SYSTEM

8.  Know what as reference point is and which place is not a good reference point.

9.  What is declination magnetic? QQ

10. A:  THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAGNETIC NORTH AND THE TRUE NORTH

11.  What powers the water cycle? QQ

12.  SUN’S ENERGY AA

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14.  What is a sediment? QQ

15.  ROCK AND SOIL DEPOSITED BY STREAMS AA

16.  The two highest layers of the atmosphere are: STRATOSPHERE & THERMOSPHERE

17. When do the greatest tidal ranges occur? QQ

18.  SPRING TIDES AA

19.  What increases the salinity of the ocean water? QQ

20.  EVAPORATION AA

21.  What is part of the thermosphere called? QQ

22.  IONSPHERE AA

23.  what kind of weather cumulonimbus clouds bring? QQ

24.  THUNDERSTORMS AA

25.  What is the purpose of isobars? QQ

26.  TO CONNECT POINTS OF EQUAL AIR PRESSURE ON WEATHER MAP AA

27.  Where does a continental polar air mass form? QQ

28.  UP NORTH (NORTHERN AREAS) AA

29.  What can you get from a weather map? QQ

30.  LOCATION OF COLD AND WARM FRONTS AA

31.  What kind of weather will nimbostratus clouds clouds likely bring? QQ

32.  RAINY AA

33.  What is a storm surge and what can it cause? QQ

34.  It is the rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes and wind associated with a storm.  CAUSED FROM A HURRICANE AA

35.  Where do ocean currentS flow east to west near? QQ

36.  NEAR THE EQUATOR AA

37.  What explains why one side of a mountain usually has more precipitation than the other side? QQ

38.  MOUNTAINS FORCE AIR TO RISE, AND AIR COOLS AND RELEASES MOISURE AS IT RISES. AA

39.  What does the Earth’s atmosphere have most of as far as gas? QQ

40. MOSTLY OF NITROGEN WITH ABOUT 21% OXYGEN AA

41.  Surface currents are caused by what? QQ

42.  WIND AA

43.  What is global warming caused by? QQ

44.  AN INCREASE IN GREENHOUSE GASES AA

45.  What causes the change of the seasons? QQ

46.  THE TILT OF THE EARTH’S AXIS AA

47.  What is the major source of human-caused air pollution? QQ

48. VEHICLE EXHAUST AA

49.  What does a surface current do when it deflects? QQ

50.  CHANGES DIRECTION AA

51.  Know the globe is the model of the Earth that has distortion.

52.  Know the protective ozone layer is found in the STRATOSPHERE

53.  When prevailing winds travel to a region across large body of water what would the climate be? QQ

54.  WETTER AA

55.  Know the greatest problem created by the ozone layer…….is too much radiation

56. What is used to collect weather-related data from the upper atmosphere? QQ

57. AA  WEATHER BALLOON, DOPPLER RADAR, WEATHER SATELLITE.

58.  What tool measures air pressure? QQ

59. AA  BAROMETER

60.  What is a source-point pollution and non-point? QQ

61. AA  POINT SOURCE IS WATER POLLUTION THAT COMES FROM A SINGLE, DESCRETE PLACE, TYPICALLY A PIPE.  NON-POINT SOURCECOMES FROM MANY SOURCES.

62.  Know about the water treatment plants and sewer system fliltration stages. QQ

63.  What is El Nino and be able to explain what it does. QQ