Midterm Study Guide 8th Grade Earth Science Exam Date: Wednesday January 29th

**Answer these questions on a separate sheet of paper.

Name_________________________________ Study Guide Due by: Monday January 27th

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What are the parts of the water cycle and when do they occur? What sphere contains the water cycle? In the nitrogen cycle what are the ways that nitrogen becomes usable? What ways is carbon added into our atmosphere? What are carbon rich fuels and how do they form? What is needed for photosynthesis to occur in plants? What gas exchange takes place between plants and humans? What is the rock cycle and how do rocks change? What is the biosphere? What are the layers of the earth and which is the largest kilometers thick?? What happens in the mantle that is significant to plate movements How many continents are on earth? What is Pangaea? What happens at a mid-ocean ridge? At a mid-ocean ridge where is the newest crust located? Oldest? What is the theory of continental drift? What happens at a hot spot? How does it move? In an island chain where are the oldest islands located relative to the hot spot? What happens at a convergent boundary? What happens at a divergent boundary? What happens at a transform boundary? What and where is the San Andreas fault? What is created at each of the boundaries? What is subduction? Why is it occurring? What is driving the activity we experience on earth at the plate boundaries? What is energy? What is elastic rebound? What is a focus? What is an epicenter? What causes a Tsunami? What is a seismic wave? What is the study of seismology and what does a seismograph measure? What is does magnitude measure? What scale is used? What are P waves? What are S wave? What are surface waves? What waves cause the most damage?

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What waves travel the fastest? What waves travel the slowest? What has been done to make things more seismic safe? How do scientists determine the epicenter of an earthquake? What does a p wave and s wave look like?

The following material below is what we will be covering this week and it will also be included on the midterm. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. What the three types of volcanoes? What are the sizes of each volcano compared to one another? What are the shapes of the three types of volcanoes? What is in the composition of the magma of each type of volcano? What determines how the lava will flow? What is in lava that flows easily? What is in magma that is thick and resists flow? What happens because of this? What type of eruption does each volcano have? What is tephra?