Test Objectives

Environmental Earth Science - Mr. Mitchell
Test review for 
The EEEEEKKK !!!  List  (periods 3,4,6)


Review your notes, handouts and homework to find the materials that apply to these performance objectives. Write EEEEK!!  next to the objectives that you need the most help with.  In class on our review day, these are your priorities for review.  

(The learning objectives for the Land P+P Section are at: http:// www.oocities.org/ CapeCanaveral/ 7639/ land/ landobj.htm)

The dates are approximate, please check your own notes.  To do well on the Test, you should be able to:


Apr 5, 2002 CT Plate Boundary Features and Rocks
1. Identify the features found at tectonic plate
 boundaries. 2. Relate tectonic activity to local
geologic history. 3. Apply knowledge of plate boundary
activities.


Apr 8, 2002 REDAS: Res. E-Quake Damage Assesment Scale
1. Assess your own homes to predict potential damage
from a major earthquake.


Apr 10, 2002 Radon
1. Describe what radon is and where it comes from. 2.
Describe how radon gets into homes and how to stop it.
3. Demonstrate understanding of radon problems by
making sure their homes are tested.



Apr 11, 2002 New England Earthquakes
1. Define earthquake, focus, hypocenter, epicenter. 2.
Describe causes of earthquakes 3. Relate earthquakes to
plate boundaries. 4. Contrast surface with body seismic
waves. 5. Describe examples, numbers of earthquakes in
New England.


Apr 22, 2002 Land Intro and Weathering Processes
1. Describe and give examples of how rocks weather
physically and chemically. 2. Differentiate between
physical and chemical weathering. 3. List physical,
chemical weathering processes. 4. Match products of
weathering with the processes that formed them. 5.
Describe the interelation of phys/chem weathering.






Apr 24, 2002 Soil Horizons and Processes
1. Explain why tropical soils are poor. 2. Identify how
soil is lost. 3. Describe how to protect soil from
loss. 4. Identify soil as the most important product of
weathering. 5. Define soil in a way that indicates its
value. 6. Diagram the formation of residual soil. 7.
Identify the processes that form soil.


Apr 25, 2002 Field work: Local Soil Structure
1. Identify and measure the major soil horizons. 2.
List the components and the processes occurring in each
soil horizon. 3. Identify the components most important
to soil fertility. 4.Contrast residual with transported
soil 5. Describe basic soil conservation techniques
related to forestry, agriculture and suburban activities.


Apr 29, 2002 Mass Movements
1. Define mass movements 2. List the causes of mass
movements. 3. Describe how to cure and prevent damage
from mass movements. 4.



Apr 30, 2002 Wind Erosion
1. Describe why sand dunes are important. 2. Diagram
the movement of sand dunes. 3. Explain how to stabilize
sand dunes. 4. Describe the importance and formation of
loess. 5. Identify techniques to slow wind erosion.



May 1, 2002 Wrap up MM, Wind Erosion
1. Describe how wind removes material. 2. Describe how
wind transports materials. 3. Describe how wind
deposits materials. 4. List land forms caused by wind
as an agent of erosion.



May 6, 2002 Glacier Movement
1. Diagram the flow of glacial ice. 2. State the
relationships between rates of flow, melting and
directions of glacial front movements. 3. Define
moraine. 4. Describe how a terminal moraine is formed
from the stationary front of a glacier. 5.Describe how
ground moraine is formed from a retreating glacier front.


May 8, 2002 Glaciation
1. Describe how and where glaciers form. 2. Describe
how glaciers move. 3. Describe how glacers change the
land as they flow. 4. Identify features formed by
depostion by glaciers. 5. Identify possible causes of
the ice ages. 6. List information learned from existing
glaciers. 7. Tell what a glaciologist does.
 Environmental Earth Science - Mr. Mitchell
Test review for 
The EEEEEKKK !!!  List  (periods 1,7)


Review your notes, handouts and homework to find the materials that apply to these performance objectives. Write EEEEK!!  next to the objectives that you need the most help with.  In class on our review day, these are your priorities for review.  

(The learning objectives for the Land P+P Section are at: http:// www.oocities.org/ CapeCanaveral/ 7639/ land/ landobj.htm)

The dates are approximate, please check your own notes.  To do well on the Test, you should be able to:


Apr 5, 2002 Earthquake Effects
1. Relate internal Earth heat movement to earthquakes
at tectonic plate boundaries. 2. Identify stress
release in rocks at faults as the cause of earthquakes.
3. Describe how a seismograph works. 4. Relate Richter
scale measurements to energy release. 5. Describe
cultural and geological effects of earthquakes.

Apr 8, 2002 New England Earthquakes
1. Define earthquake, focus, hypocenter, epicenter. 2.
Describe causes of earthquakes 3. Relate earthquakes to
plate boundaries. 4. Contrast surface with body seismic
waves. 5. Describe examples, numbers of earthquakes in
New England.


Apr 9, 2002 Radon
1. Describe what radon is and where it comes from. 2.
Describe how radon gets into homes and how to stop it.
3. Demonstrate understanding of radon problems by
making sure their homes are tested.



Apr 9, 2002 Lab: Seismic Travel Times and Tracking Plates
1. Use graphs of seismic wave travel times to determine
earthquake distances. 2. Use seismograph records to
determine epicenter locations. 3. Use focus depths to
predict plate boundary types. 4. Use a computer
spreadsheet program to do simple math and graphs.


Apr 10, 2002 REDAS: Res. E-Quake Damage Assesment Scale
1. Assess your own homes to predict potential damage
from a major earthquake.






Apr 22, 2002 Intro to Land Processes-Products
1. Interpret a simple flow chart of the
weathering/erosion/deposition processes and products.
2. define weathering, weathring products, erosion,
erosion agents, deposition, deposition products.
3. relate land management to weathering and erosion.
4. Describe factors that affect the rate of weathering.


Apr 23, 2002 Weathering Processes
1. Describe and give examples of how rocks weather
physically and chemically. 2. Differentiate between
physical and chemical weathering. 3. List physical,
chemical weathering processes. 4. Match products of
weathering with the processes that formed them. 5.
Describe the interelation of phys/chem weathering.


Apr 23, 2002 Lab: Weathering Processes, REDAS
1. Design a controlled experiment to test how rocks
weather at Earth's surface. 2. Perform a controlled
experiment to test how rocks weather at Earth,s
surface.


Apr 24, 2002 Products of Weathering
1. List five products of phys, chem weathering that
people use daily. 2. Describe the commercial importance
of the formation of products of weathering. 3. Explain
why recycling of aluminum is economically important
based on formation of bauxite ore. 4. Relate the
abundance of clay to hydration of aluminum silicates.


Apr 26, 2002 Soil Horizons and Processes
1. Explain why tropical soils are poor. 2. Identify how
soil is lost. 3. Describe how to protect soil from
loss. 4. Identify soil as the most important product of
weathering. 5. Define soil in a way that indicates its
value. 6. Diagram the formation of residual soil. 7.
Identify the processes that form soil.


Apr 30, 2002 Field work: Local Soil Structure
1. Identify and measure the major soil horizons. 2.
List the components and the processes occurring in each
soil horizon. 3. Identify the components most important
to soil fertility. 4.Contrast residual with transported
soil 5. Describe basic soil conservation techniques
related to forestry, agriculture and suburban activities.


Apr 30, 2002 Mass Movements
1. Define mass movements 2. List the causes of mass
movements. 3. Describe how to cure and prevent damage
from mass movements.

May 1, 2002 Wrap up MM and Soil, Intro Wind Erosion
1. Describe how wind removes material. 2. Describe how
wind transports materials. 3. Describe how wind
deposits materials. 4. List land forms caused by wind
as an agent of erosion.


May 3, 2002 Wind Erosion
1. Describe why sand dunes are important. 2. Diagram
the movement of sand dunes. 3. Explain how to stabilize
sand dunes. 4. Describe the importance and formation of
loess. 5. Identify techniques to slow wind erosion.


May 6, 2002 Glacier Movement
1. Diagram the flow of glacial ice. 2. State the
relationships between rates of flow, melting and
directions of glacial front movements. 3. Define
moraine. 4. Describe how a terminal moraine is formed
from the stationary front of a glacier. 5.Describe how
ground moraine is formed from a retreating glacier front.


May 7, 2002 Glaciers and Outwash
1. Interpret a flow chart of land processes and
products to relate erosion by glaciers to weathering
and other erosion agents. 2. Describe and diagram the
formation of stratified glacial deposits. 3. Explain
why stratified deposits hold the most groundwater. 4.
Identify probable areas of stratified material.


May 8, 2002 Glaciation
1. Describe how and where glaciers form. 2. Describe
how glaciers move. 3. Describe how glacers change the
land as they flow. 4. Identify features formed by
depostion by glaciers. 5. Identify possible causes of
the ice ages. 6. List information learned from existing
glaciers. 7. Tell what a glaciologist does.

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