As promised here is some information to help you prepare for the final exam. Remember, I will be available everyday this week with office hours if you have questions about content or your grade AND we'll be having review sessions on Wednesday during your regularly scheduled class time fr content questions.
Study hard and please let me know if you have any questions!
Test format
- Multiple choice questions (the pre-test questions minus questions on topics we did not cover)
- Lots of completion questions (40-60)
- 3-7 short answer questions
- NO essay questions! (Bummer for some, joy for many others)
- All three exams
- The many quizzes we had this semester
- Notes, notes, notes - pay particular attention to topics that we spent a lot of time on in class, but did not get asked about on any exam
- Specific topics I will definitely be including (but NOT limited too and in no particular order)....
- Details of the scientific method (including the real and best definition to the term "hypothesis")
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- 3 forms of energy transfer
- Big Bang Theory
- Nebular Theory
- Planets and astronomical objects in our solar system
- Plate Tectonics and continental drift
- The rock cycle
- Geological time
- Soils
- The layers of the atmosphere
- Weather vs. climate
- The greenhouse effect
- The anthropogenically enhanced greenhouse effect and global climate change
- The hydrologic cycle
- Food webs and chains
- Producers and consumers
- Types of metabolism (producers and consumers)
- Biogeochemical cycles
- Because we never really got to talk about it, Evolution will, with regret, not be on the Final. Sorry, I am bummed about that.
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