Science Assignments

Waves and Sound

1. Compression               2. Wave speed                 3. Rarefaction                  4. Reflection

5. Transverse wave          6. Refraction                   7. Longitudinal wave        8. Amplitude

9. Diffraction                   10. Crest                         11. Frequency      

12. Interference               13. Trough                      14. Wavelength     

15. Doppler Effect           16. resonance

(using diagrams of waves)

17. Identify and relate energy to frequency?   Amplitude?  Wave speed?  Wavelength?

18. A wave is any disturbance that transmits ____________ through matter or space.

19. As a jet approaches and passes you, how does its sound change? What term applies to this event?

20. Why does the speed of sound change for different media?

21. How can a sound break a window or glass?

Light and EM Waves

1.  Electromagnetic Waves                  2. Radiation                                       

3.  Prisms produced spectrums (rainbows) through_____________ a type of wave interaction.

4.  EM waves are made of _____________________ and ________________.

5.  List each type of EM wave in order of longest wavelength to shortest.

6.  Explain how the color of an object is determined.______________________
7. EM waves transfer _______________.

Cells & Nervous System

1. Give the order, from smallest to largest, of units of life.

2. Name the organelles and the ir functions and the types of cells for each.

3. What element is found in all living organisms?

4.  What is ATP?

5. What 3 elements combine to make carbohydrates?

6. What is the end result of mitosis?

7. What is the end result of meiosis?

8. What are chromosomes made of?

9. What does DNA stand for?

10. What are nucleotides?  What are the 4 bases? How do they match up with each other?

11. What are mutations?  List 3 types.  How do mutations occur? What are the results?

12. How do neurons communicate? (signals)

Geology

1. What is the estimated geologic age of the Earth? What evidence is this age based on?

2. How do people know the location of the core?

3. What causes lithospheric plates to move?

4. What is the Law of Superposition?

5. Explain how the age of a substance can be determined by knowing the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.

6. What are the three plate boundaries? What happens at each boundary?

7. Why does oceanic plate sink underneath continental plate?

Environmental Science

1. Biotic                2. Abiotic                        3. Population                   4. Community       

5. Ecosystem         6. Biosphere                    7. Energy-pyramid           8. Habitat    

9. Niche                 10. Limiting-factor           11. Carrying-capacity           

12. Competition     13. Prey                          14. Predator               

15. Symbiosis        16. Mutualism                  17. Commensalism          18. Parasitism

19. In what order does energy flow through the food chain?

20. How much energy moves to the next level of the food chain (what percentage)?

21. How are biomes determined?

22. On an energy pyramid, why does each layer have to be larger than the layers above it?

Weather and Climate

1. Climate    2. Weather             3. Coriolis Effect             4. Temperature

5. Identify and define each type of front.

6. Identify two types of winds.

7. How do global convection currents cause moist or dry climates at 0°, 30°, 60°, and 90° latitude?

8. Why does our weather in Kentucky almost always come from the west?

9. Why do so many tornadoes form in the US and Tornado Alley?

10. How does the angle at which the sun’s energy affect climate?

11. What is different about each atmospheric layer?

12. Describe how convection occurs in the atmosphere.

13. How does air pressure affect wind?