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Unit Overviews June09

This document discusses several topics related to earth science including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, weather forecasting, and extreme weather events. Specific topics covered include the water cycle, ocean currents, clouds, fronts, precipitation systems, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons.

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Unit Overviews June09

This document discusses several topics related to earth science including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, weather forecasting, and extreme weather events. Specific topics covered include the water cycle, ocean currents, clouds, fronts, precipitation systems, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons.

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Earth

Weather vs climate (13.1)


Earth’s Energy Balance (13.2) [Conduction, convection, radiation, absorption,
reflection]

The Atmosphere:
Layers (13.4)
Wind patterns (Coriolis, prevailing winds) (13.6) Review:
Notes
The Hydrosphere: Weather maps
Water Cycle Review (13.8) Homework questions
Major Ocean Currents (13.9) Questions from Thunderstorm video
Clouds and Fog (13.11) Global Weather Patterns p. 536-7
Weather Forecasting:
North American Weather Systems (fronts, pressure systems) (14.2)
Precipitation (14.5)

Extreme Weather
Thunderstorms and tornadoes (15.3)
Hurricanes, Typhoons, and tropical Cyclones (15.6)
Stuff you need to know about Chemistry in SNC 2D

Classification and description of matter


Chemical and Physical properties and changes
Metals vs Non-Metals

Ionic Compounds
• Lewis Dot Diagrams
• Formulas
• Naming
• Don’t forget transition metals and polyatomic ions!

Molecular Compounds
• Lewis Dot Diagrams
• Formulas
• Naming
• Don’t forget Diatomic Molecules (the SUPER 7 Gases!)

Law of Conservation of Mass

Chemical Reactions
• Word Equations
• Skeleton Equations
• Balancing

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• Synthesis
• Decomposition
• Single Displacement
• Double Displacement Predict the Products
• Complete and incomplete Combustion
• Acid-Base Neutralization

Rates of Reactions
• Kinetic Molecular Theory Textbook Review Questions:
• Collision Model
• Temperature Chapter 5 (p. 214): #1-11, 14, 15
• Surface Area Chapter 6 (p. 252): #1-12, 14, 15
• Concentration Chapter 7 (p. 287) #1, 2, 3acdefgi, 4-6,
• Catalyst 8, 12, 13, 14
Chapter 8 (p. 326) #1, 2acfg, 3adehj,
Acids and Bases 1-6, 8-10, 16, 19
• Properties
• The pH scale and its uses
• Reactions
• Significant figures
• unit conversions
• distance
• speed (average, continuous, instantaneous),
• acceleration
• distance-time graphs (find distance, speed, acceleration)
• speed-time graphs (find speed, distance, acceleration)
• Vectors (writing, drawing, calculating)
• the difference between vectors and scalars
• position
• displacement (difference with distance)
• velocity (difference with speed)
• average velocity
• adding vectors in 1-D and 2-D
• position-time graphs
• velocity-time graphs
• calculations with uniform acceleration (find displacement, velocities, acceleration,
time)

Be able to rearrange and use:


∆d ∆v ∆d ∆v
vav = a av = v= a= ∆d = v1∆t + 12 a∆t 2
∆t ∆t ∆t ∆t
v1 + v2
∆d = ∆t
2

For review problems, see Review #1, Twizes and Homework


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1. Carbon Cycle
• Roles of photosynthesis and cellular respiration
• Diagram
• Carbon sinks
• Organic
• inorganic (ocean, atmosphere, earth' s crust)
• the greenhouse effect (basic)

2. Nitrogen cycle
• Uses and diagram
• fixation and denitrification
• purpose of fertilizers, aeration, rotating crops

3. Populations Looking for more questions:


• population density p. 46 #3-13
• population distribution p. 84 #1-3, 5, 6, 8-14, 18, 19
• population growth and rate
• fluctuation

4. Limits to populations:
• extinction
• birth potential
• capacity for survival
• procreation
• length of reproductive life
• environmental factors (biotic, abiotic)
• density dependant and independent factors

5. Food and Energy Transfer


• chains
• webs
• pyramids
• trophic levels
• thermodynamics laws

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