Science Lesson 36!

Environmental Science 5
Lesson 36

FINAL EXAM
This final lesson is a review of the second semester. Look through lessons 19-35 and answer the following questions.

1. What is meteorology?
The study of the weather. Meteorologists need special instruments like thermometers, barometers, and anemometers. They use satellites to figure out when hurricanes, storms, and tornadoes will happen.

2. Complete this weather matching exercise. Match the word on the left column with the appropriate definition on the right.

a. jet stream
1. The temperature at which the air is saturated and water vapor condenses to liquid.
b. dewpoint
2. A tool that measures change in air pressure.
c. anemometer
3. A current of fast moving air high in the atmosphere which helps determine weather.
d. rainshadow
4. The feeling of cooling caused by the wind taking away body heat.
e. barometer
5. The effect that mountains have on the amount of rainfall on either side.
f. wind chill
6. A tool that measures wind speed.

1.B. 2.E 3.A. 4.F D.5 C.6.

3. Which is more likely to happen where you live: a hurricane, a tornado, or a blizzard? Why?
None! We live by the ocean—make that 24 BLOCKS away—and it never snows, he ocean isn’t warm enough for hurricanes, AND tornadoes are least likely, because, well, we’re by the ocean, and just about never get thunderstorms. All of these are fueled by the Jet Stream—which is soooo far away.

4. What organisms belong in each kingdom? Match each of the five kingdoms on the left with the appropriate living thing on the right.

a. monera
1. the grass in your lawn
b. protista
2. the bacteria that cause strep throat or that make yogurt.
c. fungi
3. seaweed
d. plantae
4. yeast and mold (okay, mushrooms too!)
e. animalia
5. you and your friends

D. 1. A. 2. B. 3. C. 4. E.5.

5. What kind of tissue is your skin? How about your heart? Your brain? Heart is… heart tissue, brain is nerve tissue, and skin is Epithelial tissue!


6. What causes goosebumps?
The contraction of small muscles under the skin when you get cold.

7. How long is the small intestine? What does it do?
It’s 22 feet long and helps the food and drink from your stomach get broken down into pieces small enough for your body to absorb.

8. When you measure the weight of something, what natural force does the weight depend on?
Gravity pushes down on everything in different ways, depending on several different things, including mass, and height.

9. Give three examples of different types of energy.
Kinetic, chemical, potential, sound, nuclear, electrical, magnetic, and electromagnetic energy.

10. Where does all the energy on the Earth come from? (You’ve been asked this before - just so you know how important it is!)
The sun gives us light—but hidden in that light is all the energy of the world.

11. Why do most substances expand when they are heated?
Because they become less dense and vapourize. This means that they expand.

12. Most substances contract when they are cooled. How does water break this rule?
Not just water—all liquids—expand when frozen because the cold causes the atoms to become less mobile, and also gain density.

13. Match the words in the right column with the proper description on the left.
a. light year
1. This results when light hits a water drop or prism and splits into its different wavelengths.
b. gamma rays
2. The bending of light rays as they go from one substance to another
c. radio waves
3. The highest energy waves with the shortest wavelength
d. rainbow
4. the distance that light travels in a year
e. refraction
5. The lowest frequency waves

D. 1. E. 2. B. 3. A. 4. C. 5.

14. Describe three sounds around you and rank them from the lowest to the highest pitch. Which of these sounds has the highest frequency (the shortest wavelength)?

There’s dad yelling, that’s the second to last loudest
There’s birds chirping, that’s the quietest
And there’s me, typing on my keyboard, that’s the loudest.

15. Name three early inventions that came about because of electricity.
The phonograph, the light bulb (Curse you Edison! You should’ve invented the Compact Florescent first!) and the… X-ray!

16. What do a Frisbee, a bird, and an airplane have in common? (You aren’t allowed to just say “they all fly!”)
They all allow air to pass over their wings (Excluding the Frisbee) and allow that to lift them up in the air (With a little bit of help)

17. Name three kinds of sciences you studied this year. Which was your favorite? If you were to be a scientist when you grow up, what kind of scientist would you like to be?
Well, there was life science, weather science, and—of course—environmental science! My favorite HAD to be life science. I am going to be a Zoologist when I grow up. In fact, each career I ever wanted was a Scientist! I might also be a Cryptozoologist—a fringe science that studies creatures like the Loch Ness Monster, and Bigfoot, classifies them, and tries to decide if they are real (And if they are, they try to decide ‘What the heck does it really look like?’)

19. What were some of your favorite activities from this year’s science course? What activities did you like the least?

I really liked making the 3D Jell-O cell, and didn’t like any of he tings about the body (Except for the cells… they’re interesting) The protecting animals lesson was awesome, because that is one of the many reasons why I want to be a Zoologist.