Unit 2 Exam Topic List

12A

·         Requirements for life

·         Properties of water

·         Composition of Earth – layers of Earth and characteristics

·         Composition of Earth’s atmosphere – organization, chemical composition

·         Weather and climate – convection, weather v. climate, greenhouse effect

·         Plate tectonics

·         Properties and characteristics of soil – soil horizons and their characteristics, nutrients – N/P/K, humus, sand, clay, silt, permeability

·         Human impact upon soils – fertilizers and runoff, salinization, erosion – and how to combat them

·         Rock cycle – types of rocks, their characteristics, and how they form

·         Carbon cycle – sources, sinks

·         Volcanoes – types of volcanoes and characteristics, connection to plate tectonics

·         Earthquakes – P and S waves

12CD

·         Requirements for life

·         Properties of water

·         Composition of Earth – layers of Earth and characteristics

·         Composition of Earth’s atmosphere – organization, chemical composition

·         Weather and climate – convection, weather v. climate, Coriolis effect, greenhouse effect

·         Plate tectonics

·         Properties and characteristics of soil – soil horizons and their characteristics, types of soils, nutrients – N/P/K, humus, sand, clay, silt, permeability

·         Human impact upon soils – fertilizers and runoff, salinization, erosion – and how to combat them

·         Rock cycle – types of rocks, their characteristics, and how they form

·         Carbon cycle – sources, sinks, fluxes

·         History of Earth and mass extinctions

·         Volcanoes – types of volcanoes and characteristics, connection to plate tectonics

·         Earthquakes – P and S waves, types of faults