8th Grade Science
SEMESTER EXAM SCHEDULE
12/13 Monday
1st Report to HR & 2nd period (class change will be done by bells)
2nd 5th period exam
3rd 5th period exam
4th Regular Schedule
5th Regular Schedule
6th 7th period exam
7th 7th period exam
12/14 Tuesday
1st Regular Schedule
2nd 3rd period exam
3rd 3rd period exam
4th 3rd period exam
5th Regular Schedule
6th Regular Schedule
7th Regular Schedule
12/15 Wednesday
1st 2nd period exam
2nd 2nd period exam
3rd Regular Schedule
4th Regular Schedule
5th Regular Schedule
6th 6th period exam
7th 6th period exam
12/16 Thursday
1st 1st period exam
2nd 1st period exam
3rd 4th period exam
4th 4th period exam
5th Regular Schedule
6th Regular Schedule
7th Regular Schedule
12/17
1st Make-ups
2nd Make-ups
3rd Regular Schedule
4th Regular Schedule
5th Regular Schedule
6th Regular Schedule
7th Regular Schedule
Study Guide:
8th grade science semester exam
1. List and describe the three types of stresses that affect the Earth’s
crust, include the type of movement involved with that stress.
2. List and describe the types of boundaries that each type of stress
produces.
3. Describe and illustrate how a fault-block mountain is formed, which
portion is the valley or basin?
4. Define earthquake.
5. Differentiate between an anticline and a syncline. What type of
stress causes these two formations?
6. Differentiate between the focus and epicenter of an earthquake.
7. Describe the different types of seismic waves.
8. What type of air mass is associated with a cyclone, with an
anticyclone? What type of weather can be expected when a cyclone is present,
when an anticyclone is present?
9. How are air pressure and altitude related?
10. How is heat transferred in the atmosphere?
11. Define greenhouse effect.
12. Differentiate between ultraviolet radiation and infrared radiation.
13. Which colors of visible light in the electromagnetic spectrum have
the longer wavelengths? (study the electromagnetic spectrum)
14. How do people use the shorter wavelengths on the electromagnetic
spectrum?
15. Differentiate between a land breeze and a sea breeze.
16. Define density
17. Illustrate and describe a dense air mass and a less dense air mass.
18. Compare and contrast air masses with air pressure, density, and
temperature
19. Define Conduction. Give two examples of conduction.
20. Define convection. Give two examples of convection.
21. Define radiation. Give two examples of radiation.
22. Define global winds. Describe how global winds are produced.
23. Describe the 3 main global wind belts. Include location (latitude) and
wind direction.
24. Define humidity and relative humidity.
25. There are four different types of air masses, what are they and where
are they located (latitude)?
26. How does a hurricane form?
27. What determines the strength of a hurricane?
28. Illustrate a cold front, warm front, cyclone, and anticyclone as they
would be represented on a weather map. What type of weather would you
expect if a cold front came through the area followed by a cyclone?
29. Describe the path that hurricanes follow and why. (Include specific
details as to why a hurricane would change direction).
30. Describe and illustrate the water cycle process.
31. Define a weather front.
32. Describe and illustrate the four types of fronts.
33. Describe a divergent, convergent, and transform boundary. (Include the
type of stress necessary to produce this type of movement).
34. Volcanoes can form along divergent boundaries. Describe this process.
35. In a convergent boundary, oftentimes one plate subduct under another.
What determines which plate will subduct under the other?
36. Define lithosphere.
37. Define asthenosphere.
38. Describe what happens when the different plates collide.
• Oceanic plate collides with oceanic plate
• Oceanic plate collides with a continental plate
• A continental plate collides with a continental plate
39. Describe the different types of volcanoes and the steps required to form
each one