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