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Review Questions for Quiz #1:  Friday, September 11th

Lab Safety

1. When is it important to wear goggles?  How long should you wear them?
2. What should you do when you enter class, complete a lab and before you leave class?
3. What should you do if you and your lab partners do not understand lab directions?
4. All lab chemicals should be treated as ________ unless Ms. J says otherwise.
5. How are concentrated acids and water properly mixed?
6. Describe how your workstation will look during a lab.
7. The inability to adhere to lab safety rules will result in: 
8. Complete the safety diagram of the classroom, identifying the eye wash, fire extinguisher, fire blanket, emergency exit, and sinks.

General Classroom Procedures

1. I will be marked present if I am: 
2. Circle one:  True or False:  My homework/labs must be turned in to the correct bin before the start of class.

Review Questions for Quiz #2: Friday, September 25

Vocabulary

1. convection
2. cumulonimbus
3. vortex
4. conduction
5. barometer
6. anemometer

Content

1. What is the charge of a proton?
2. What is the charge of an electron?
3. How does a thundercloud form?
4. Which storms include a vortex?
5. What is the difference between the rates at which soil and water heat when thermal energy is applied?
6. What is the difference between the rates at which soil and water cool when thermal energy is discontinued?
7. How do the different rates of heating and cooling of soil and water influence weather?

Review Questions for Quiz #3: Friday, October 9

Vocabulary

1. Super Cell
2. Stable  Air Mass
3. Unstable Air Mass
4. Thermal Energy

Content

1. How do warm surfaces affect the temperature of the air above? (lab 4.1)
2. How do cold surfaces affect the temperature of the air above? (lab 4.1)
3. How do warm surfaces affect the movement of air above the surface? (lab 4.2)
4. How do cold surfaces affect the movement of air above the surface? (lab 4.2)
5. What happens when air masses of different temperatures meet? (lab 5.1)

Extra Credit: Name the layers of the atmosphere in order.

Review Questions for Quiz #4: Friday, October 23

Vocabulary:  Thermal Equilibrium

Content:

1. What is a thunderstorm?
2. Where and when do thunderstorms occur?
3. What is the size and frequency of thunderstorms?
4. Describe a thunderstorm's damage.
5. What is a tornado?
6. When and where do tornadoes occur?
7. What is the size and frequency of tornadoes?
8. Describe a tornado's damage.
9. What is a hurricane?
10. When and where do hurricanes occur?
11. What is the size and frequency of hurricanes?
12. Describe a hurricane's damage.

Review questions for Quiz #5: Earthquakes

Vocabulary:

1. Seismologist
2. Seismograph
3. Seismogram
4. Epicenter
5. Plate Tectonic Theory

Content:

1. What is the difference between P-, and S-waves (names and motion)?
2. How are seismic waves recorded on seismographs?
3. How is data on a seismogram used to locate the epicenter of an earthquake?
4. Why do scientists use both the Richter and Mercalli scales?