Spring Final Exam
Topics to Review
- Work
- Relationship between Force and Distance
- When does work happen?
- Positive and Negative
- How do simple machines affect work?
- Pulleys
- Energy
- Kinetic and Potential (think pendulum and rollercoaster!)
- Calculations for kinetic and potential
- Energy transformations (ex: how a wind turbine converts wind energy into electrical energy)
- Convection Currents
- Density and Salinity driven
- Density Calculations
- Where can currents be found?
- Plate Tectonics and Features
- Source of Earth’s internal energy
- Boundary Types and formations found at each
- Seafloor spreading and age
- Waves
- Parts of a wave
- Calculations (wave speed, frequency, wavelength)
- Atmosphere
- Composition
- layers
- Climate
- Climate vs weather
- Windward vs leeward
- How location influences climate (map notes)
- Climate Change
- 5 major indicators of climate change