6TH GRADE 1ST QUARTER
EQT REVIEW
What affects stream erosion?
Q
A:DISCHARGE
What is a bed load?
Q
A:Material carried
in solution in a river
What drains a watershed?
Q
A:A WATER
SYSTEM
Know what as reference point is and which place is
not a good reference point.
What is declination magnetic?
Q
A:THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN MAGNETIC NORTH AND THE
TRUE NORTH
What powers the water cycle?
Q
SUN’S ENERGY
A
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What is a sediment?
Q
ROCK AND SOIL DEPOSITED BY
STREAMS
A
The two highest layers of the
atmosphere are: STRATOSPHERE & THERMOSPHERE
When do the greatest tidal ranges occur?
Q
SPRING TIDES
A
What increases the salinity of the ocean
water?
Q
EVAPORATION
A
What is part of the thermosphere
called?
Q
IONSPHEREA
what kind of weather cumulonimbus clouds bring?
Q
THUNDERSTORMS
A
What is the purpose of isobars?
Q
TO CONNECT POINTS OF EQUAL AIR PRESSURE ON WEATHER MAP
A
Where does a continental polar air mass form?
Q
UP NORTH (NORTHERN AREAS)
A
What can you get from a weather map?
Q
LOCATION OF COLD AND WARM FRONTS
A
What kind of weather will nimbostratus
clouds clouds likely bring?
Q
RAINYA
What is a storm surge and what
can it cause?
Q
It is the rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes and wind associated with a storm. CAUSED FROM A HURRICANE
A
Where do ocean currentS flow east
to west near?
Q
NEAR THE EQUATORA
What explains why one side of a mountain usually
has more precipitation than the other side?
Q
MOUNTAINS FORCE AIR TO RISE, AND AIR COOLS AND RELEASES
MOISURE AS IT RISES.
A
What does the Earth’s atmosphere have
most of as far as gas?
Q
MOSTLY OF NITROGEN WITH ABOUT 21%
OXYGEN
A
Surface currents are caused by
what?
Q
WINDA
What is global warming caused
by?
Q
AN INCREASE IN GREENHOUSE GASES
A
What causes the change of the
seasons?
Q
THE TILT OF THE EARTH’S AXIS
A
What is the major source of human-
caused air pollution?
Q
VEHICLE EXHAUSTA
What does a surface current do when it deflects?
Q
CHANGES DIRECTION
A
Know the globe is the model of the Earth that has distortion.
Know the protective ozone layer is found in
the STRATOSPHERE
When prevailing winds travel to a region
across large body of water what would the
climate be?
Q
WETTER
A
Know the greatest problem created by
the ozone layer…….is too much radiation
What is used to collect weather-related data
from the upper atmosphere?
Q
A WEATHER BALLOON, DOPPLER
RADAR, WEATHER SATELLITE.
What tool measures air
pressure?
Q
A BAROMETER
What is a source-point pollution and
non-point?
Q
A POINT SOURCE IS WATER POLLUTION THAT COMES FROM A
SINGLE, DESCRETE PLACE, TYPICALLY A PIPE.NON-POINT SOURCECOMES
FROM MANY SOURCES.
Know about the water treatment plants and
sewer system fliltration stages.
Q
What is El Nino and be able to explain
what it does.
Q