Name: ______6th grade Earth Science Midterm Study Guide
Chapter 1(Reading Maps) 1. Why are maps useful? What do they help us with?
2. What is latitude? Explain in detail.
3. What is longitude? Explain in detail.
4. What does the Prime Meridian divide Earth into?
5. What does the Equator divide the Earth into?
6. Define geologic formation
7. Topographic maps (2-3 facts)
8. Geologic maps (2-3 facts)
Chapter 2(Rocks, Minerals, Earth’s Layers) 1. What are beaches? How are they formed?
2. Define lava
3. Define magma
4. Define mineral
5. Define rock
6. What is the hardness test?
7. What is the streak test?
1 Name: ______6th grade Earth Science Midterm Study Guide 8. Compare and contrast fracture and cleavage
9. Define luster
10. What does the rock cycle show?
11. How do igneous rocks form?
12. How do sedimentary rocks form?
13. How do metamorphic rocks form?
14. What are the layers of earth? Give 2 facts about each one. a.
b.
c.
d.
15. Define lithosphere
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16. Define Asthenosphere
Chapter 3(Energy) 1. During energy transformations, what happens to energy?
2. What is kinetic energy?
3. What is potential energy?
4. Define heat
5. In what direction does heat move in?
6. Define temperature
7. What is the relationship between heat and temperature?
8. What are the 3 types of P.E. Define each one?
9. What does gravitational P.E. depend on?
10. Define water waves.
11. Why does the liquid in a thermometer expand when it is warmed?
3 Name: ______6th grade Earth Science Midterm Study Guide 12. Define fuel
13. What types of energy conversions/transfers are happening when we burn wood?
Chapter 4 (Continental Drift, Seafloor Spreading, Plate Tectonics) 1. Wegener a. Who was he?
b. What was his theory called?
c. What was his theory about?
d. What evidence did Wegener use to back up his idea? Explain each evidence in detail.
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2. Who was Harry Hess? What was his theory about?
3. When and how did the Mid-Atlantic Ridge form?
4. What was Pangaea
5. What was Glossopteris? How can it help explain continental drifting?
6. What part do convection currents play in plate tectonics?
7. What is seafloor spreading? How does it occur?
8. What do oceanic plates and continental plates have in common?
Chapter 5 (Plate Boundaries) 1. When the Oceanic plate and the Continental plate meet, which one subducts? Why?
2. What are the 3 types of stress? What is the effect of each one on plates?
5 Name: ______6th grade Earth Science Midterm Study Guide 3. What are the 3 faults? Which type of stress happens at each fault?
a.
b.
c.
4. What are the 3 types of plate boundaries? What action takes place at each one?
5. How do subduction zones form?
6. How does a rift valley form?
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7. What are the hanging wall and the footwall? What happens to each in a Normal Fault and in a Reverse Fault?
Good Luck! Ms. Rozi
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