Fall

Semester Final Study Guide Integrated Science 2015

The majority of the final will focus on the astronomy and stars units but will also
include everything weve done this semester, including gravity, the scientific
revolution and the scientific method.

Your assignment Due at the final:

* This will be factored into your final grade it is not an optional assignment! *

Write a 1 page (8.5x11 in. double sided) cheat sheet to be used during the final
that incorporates the concepts and vocabulary that is on this review sheet. You will
be able to use it during the final.

Use your notebook, the textbook and your homework notes and review questions to
study.

Stellar Evolution

1. Vocabulary to know and be able to use: nebula, protostar, main sequence star,
red giant star, planetary nebula, white dwarf star, helium, supernova, gravity,
black hole, neutron star, nuclear fusion

2. Understand how the 2 forces (thermal pressure and gravity) within a star
interact to keep the star from collapsing or exploding

3. Be able to describe how 2 different masses of stars (an average star and a
massive star) are born, evolve and die throughout their lifetimes

Astronomy

Vocabulary to know and be able to use: electromagnetic radiation, wavelength,
frequency, Doppler Effect, blue shift, red shift, atomic spectrum, photoelectric effect,
reflection, refraction, diffraction, photon, spectroscope, Expanding Universe Theory,
wave, mechanical wave, electromagnetic wave, amplitude, interference

Be able to answer the following questions

1. How do atoms produce light?
2. On the electromagnetic spectrum, how are energy, wavelength and frequency
related? Which types of waves have the highest energy? The least?
3. Why do different atoms produce different colors of light?
4. Be able to determine the wavelength (how long a wave is) of a drawn wave.
5. Be able to determine the frequency of a drawn wave.
6. Be able to explain and use the Doppler Effect.

7. Describe the Big Bang and the 2 main bodies of evidence for it.
8. What is the evidence to the expansion of the universe?
9. Be able to draw waves with a certain number of wavelengths and certain
amplitude. For example, be able to draw a wave with 3 wavelengths and an
amplitude of 4.
10. Know (in a general sense) the sizes of the wavelengths of ALL the different types
of electromagnetic waves. For example, radio waves can be the size of houses or
soccer fields and x-rays are the size of molecules.
11. Understand the electromagnetic spectrum.
a. Electromagnetic radiation transfers energy!
b. At what speed does electromagnetic radiation travel?
c. The energy of a photon of light depends on its frequency
12. What is light?
13. What does it mean that light has a dual nature?
14. What did the double slit experiment prove and what was the evidence for what it
proved?
15. In terms of the electromagnetic spectrum, understand how wavelength,
frequency and energy are related to each other.
16. Understand why we see colors.
17. Understand the basic structure of atoms.
18. Understand how photons are made.
19. Understand why each element emits a unique atomic spectrum.

Gravity and The Scientific Revolution
Look at my website for 9/24/15 and 9/25/15 for a huge list of questions and
answers that you generated to study for that test.

The Scientific Process - Review Questions
1. What is a hypothesis?
2. What makes something a scientific hypothesis rather than just a guess?
3. Why would a scientist revise their hypothesis?
4. Why do scientists share data and communicate with each other?
5. What is a theory and how is it different than a hypothesis?
6. What is an observation?
7. What is a qualitative observation?
8. What is a quantitative observation?
9. What is an inference?
10. Why do scientists write and use procedure?
11. What is the independent variable in an experiment?
12. What is the dependent variable in an experiment?
13. What is a constant in an experiment?
14. Why is it really important to keep everything besides the independent
variable constant in an experiment?
15. What is an experiment in terms of the independent and dependent variables
and constants?
16. Write the major steps of the scientific method in order?