1. Monday January 10, 2011 (Review for Semester Final Exam – Day 3)

2. The Launch Pad Monday, 1/10/11 No Launch Pad Today.

3. Announcements Please remember these two important points: You cannot remediate your semester final exam. After the first semester ends, you cannot go back and improve your grade on any six-weeks of the first semester.

4. Assignment Currently Open Pages Date of Notes on Website Date IssuedDate Due Five Multiple Choice Questions on Plate Tectonics 11/1111/12 Project – Decade Volcanoes 11/1511/19 Project – Killer Earthquakes 11/1712/1 Project – Greatest Mountains 11/1912/3 Project – Fossils12/212/9 Lab: Properties of Minerals 12/1312/14 Video Quiz – Rocks & Minerals 12/15 Project – Types of Rocks12/151/5

5. Review for Semester Final Exam Day 3

6. 31 What do all of the objects in these pictures have in common? They were all found on the Earth.

7. 32 List three reasons why Pluto is no longer considered to be a planet. Pluto has a higher orbital eccentricity than any other planet. Pluto has a high orbital inclination of 17°.Pluto has a high orbital inclination of 17°. Pluto’s orbit takes it into the Kuiper Belt.Pluto’s orbit takes it into the Kuiper Belt.

8. 33 What is currently the most widely accepted hypothesis regarding the Moon’s formation? A body the size of Mars hit the young Earth and the resulting debris formed the Moon.

9. 34 What produced most Moon craters? impacts from meteoroidsimpacts from meteoroids

10. 35 What has the greatest effect on Earth’s tides? the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon

11. 36 The Geosphere of the earth can best be described as ___________________________. the solid matter of the Earththe solid matter of the Earth

12. 37 “Outgassing” played a big part in the creation of the Earth’s _____________________. atmosphere and hydrosphereatmosphere and hydrosphere

13. 38 What causes tectonic plate movement? The lithosphere slides across the asthenosphere.

14. 39 What does the iron nickel core of the Earth generate? Earth’s magnetic fieldEarth’s magnetic field

15. 40 What had occurred by the end of the Precambrian Eon? most of Earth’s stable continental crust had been created

16. 41 The following events lead from simple chemotropic bacteria to more advanced life forms. Put them in the order in which they occurred: multicellular organisms, photosynthetic organisms, eukaryotic cells, sexual reproduction, eukaryotic cells eukaryotic cells, photosynthetic organisms, multicellular organisms, sexual reproduction

17. 42 This creature probably evolved directly into modern: amphibians.

18. 43 Name three events that could cause a mass extinction. the release of large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere a large asteroid impacting the Earth a drastic change in global climate

19. 44 Describe dinosaurs and trilobites. Dinosaurs were vertebrate reptiles, not lizards. Trilobites were ancient invertebrates that once dominated the seas.

20. 45 What is true about this creature? This creature is a reptile.