7TH GRADE SCIENCE @ SCA



Use the following questions to guide your studying. Use notes, the online textbook, PowerPoint slides, old quizzes, homework assignments, and your peers to prepare. Study often! Don’t wait until the last minute. Remember: FINAL IS ON TUESDAY, 5/22/2018.Nature of Science UnitWhat do scientists working in the field of earth science study?What do scientists working in the field of life science study?What are the steps of scientific inquiry?What is the difference between scientific theories and scientific laws?What is required to form a scientific law or theory?What is an example of repetition of a scientific investigation?What is an example of replication of a scientific investigation?What is an independent variable?What is a dependent variable?What is a control group?What is an experimental group?What is a constant?What is an observational study?What is a comparative study?What is a controlled experiment?Earth Science UnitWhat are the layers of the Earth?What is the geosphere?In which layer are the tectonic plates located?Which layer contains convection currents?What did Alfred Wegner propose?What were Wegner’s evidence for continental drift?Why was Wegner missing from his hypothesis that caused few people to accept his hypothesis?What is seafloor spreading?What is the theory of plate tectonics?What causes plates to move?What are the differences between the types of plate boundaries?Convergent plate boundary?Divergent plate boundary?Transform plate boundary?What are the parts of an earthquake?What are the differences between the types of faults?Normal fault?Reverse fault?Strike-slip fault?What are the differences between types of seismic waves?Primary wave?Secondary wave?Surface wave?How do volcanoes form? at divergent plate boundaries?at convergent plate boundaries?What are the differences between the different types of volcanoes?Cinder cone?Composite?Shield?Life Science UnitWhat are the 5 limiting factors on a population?What are the differences between the types of symbiotic relationships?Mutualism?Commensalism?Parasitism?What are producers?What are consumers?How do changes in food webs affect other organisms? (Ex: if the grasshopper population decreases, which other populations may increase? Which may decrease?)What does Darwin’s theory of natural selection state?What are variations caused by?When does a variation become an adaptation?How are fossils dated using absolute-age dating?How are fossils dated using relative-age dating?What causes extinctions?What does homozygous mean?What is a gene?How can you use a Punnett square to predict the offspring’s genotypes/phenotypes? ................
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