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Science:  Today students completed an activity over geologic column.

Physical Science:  Today in science we completed a lab over weight, gravity and friction.

Science:  Students must outline chapter 5.  Quiz Monday.

Physical Science:  Students took a test over chapter 3.

Science:  Today in class students completed workbook pages today in class.

Physical Science:  Today in class students completed worksheets over chapter 3.  Test tomorrow.

This study guide is meant to help you organize your thoughts.  These are not the questions that will be on the test.

1. What is Newton’s Three Laws of Motion?

2. What is Newton’s 1st Law of Motion commonly referred?

3. How does the inertia of an object change with the mass of the object?

4. What happens when forces act on the same object?  Be sure to discuss the direction of the force.

5. What is the formula for Newton’s Second Law of Motion?  Be able to calculate each variable.

6. How are force and acceleration related?  mass and acceleration?

7. What are the different types of friction?

8. Which type of friction is the most?  the least?

9. What is terminal velocity?

10. What is the Law of Universal Gravitation?

11. What is gravity?

12. What is the formula for the gravitational force of attraction?  Be able to calculate force.

13. What is the gravitational constant?

14. What is weight?

15. How does weight change from the earth to the moon?

16. How would you calculate an object’s weight given it’s mass?

17. What is projectile motion?  What two components make up projectile motion?

18. What is centripetal acceleration and centripetal force?

19. What is momentum?

20. How do calculate momentum?

21.  What is the law of conservation of momentum?

22.  Know how to calculate the math problems on page 834 # 19, 20, 25-37

Science:  Today in class we finished up our Origami Bird project.  Tomorrow we will complete our chapter 5 workbook pages.

Physical Science:  Today in class we finished our discussion of chapter 3.  Test is Thursday.

Science:  Today in class we started a lab over bird adaptations.  The students will finish the lab tomorrow and turn it in.  Next test is March 2nd.

Physical Science:  Today in class students worked on a formula worksheet for chapter 3.  Test is February 25th.

Science:  Today in class we took a test over chapter 4.  Homework is chapter 5 vocab and read.

Physical Science:  Today in class we finished discussing chapter 3 section 2.  No homework.

Science:  Today in class we went over workbook for chapter 4.  Test tomorrow.

Physical Science:  Today in class we checked our lab and talked about The Law of Universal Gravitation.  Test Wednesday.

Study Guide Chapter 4

1. What is adaptation?
2. What is species?
3. What is a population?
4. What is evidence for change over time using fossils?
5. What are fossils and fossil record?
6. What is a “tree of life?”
7. What is a problem with the fossil record and determining an organisms change over time?
8. How did modern whales change to live in the ocean?
9. What are ways to determine the similarity between organisms?
10. Who was Charles Darwin?
11. What did Darwin discover about his finches?
12. How did the finches come to be in so many different varieties?
13. What is selective breeding?  Give an example.
14. Who are Thomas Malthus and Charles Lyell?
15. How did they influence Darwin?
16. What is Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection?
17. What are the different components of natural selection?
18. What did Darwin not understand about organisms and inherited traits?
19. What happened to the Elephants and their tusks?  Is this natural selection?
20. What is insecticide resistance?
21. What is generation time?
22. How does competition play into natural selection?
23. What is speciation?
24. How does a new species form?   (three parts)

Science:  Today we took a quiz over chapter 4. Test is on Friday.  Workbooks due tomorrow.

Physical Science:  We finished a lab over force, mass and acceleration.  Test is Wednesday.