Fall Semester Final Study Guide Integrated

Science 2015
The majority of the final will focus on the astronomy and stars units but
will also include everything weve done this semester, including
gravity, the scientific revolution and the scientific method.

Your assignment Due at the final:

* This will be factored into your final grade it is not an optional
assignment! *
Write a 1 page (8.5x11 in. double sided) cheat sheet to be used
during the final that incorporates the concepts and vocabulary that is
on this review sheet. You will be able to use it during the final.
Use your notebook, the textbook and your homework notes and review
questions to study.
Stellar Evolution
1. Vocabulary to know and be able to use: nebula, protostar, main
sequence star, red giant star, planetary nebula, white dwarf star,
helium, supernova, gravity, black hole, neutron star, nuclear
fusion
2. Understand how the 2 forces (thermal pressure and gravity)
within a star interact to keep the star from collapsing or
exploding
3. Be able to describe how 2 different masses of stars (an average
star and a massive star) are born, evolve and die throughout
their lifetimes
Astronomy
Vocabulary to know and be able to use: electromagnetic radiation,
wavelength, frequency, Doppler Effect, blue shift, red shift, atomic
spectrum, photoelectric effect, reflection, refraction, diffraction,
photon, spectroscope, Expanding Universe Theory, wave, mechanical
wave, electromagnetic wave, amplitude, interference
Be able to answer the following questions
1. How do atoms produce light?

2. On the electromagnetic spectrum, how are energy, wavelength and

frequency related? Which types of waves have the highest energy?
The least?
3. Why do different atoms produce different colors of light?
4. Be able to determine the wavelength (how long a wave is) of a
drawn wave.
5. Be able to determine the frequency of a drawn wave.
6. Be able to explain and use the Doppler Effect.
7. Describe the Big Bang and the 2 main bodies of evidence for it.
8. What is the evidence to the expansion of the universe?
9. Be able to draw waves with a certain number of wavelengths and
certain amplitude. For example, be able to draw a wave with 3
wavelengths and an amplitude of 4.
10. Know (in a general sense) the sizes of the wavelengths of ALL
the different types of electromagnetic waves. For example, radio
waves can be the size of houses or soccer fields and x-rays are the
size of molecules.
11. Understand the electromagnetic spectrum.
a. Electromagnetic radiation transfers energy!
b. At what speed does electromagnetic radiation travel?
c. The energy of a photon of light depends on its frequency
12.

What is light?

13.

What does it mean that light has a dual nature?

14. What did the double slit experiment prove and what was the
evidence for what it proved?
15. In terms of the electromagnetic spectrum, understand how
wavelength, frequency and energy are related to each other.
16.

Understand why we see colors.

17.

Understand the basic structure of atoms.

18.

Understand how photons are made.

19.

Understand why each element emits a unique atomic spectrum.

Gravity and The Scientific Revolution

Look at my website for 9/24/15 and 9/25/15 for a huge list of questions
and answers that you generated to study for that test.
The Scientific Process - Review Questions

1. What is a hypothesis?
2. What makes something a scientific hypothesis rather than just a
guess?
3. Why would a scientist revise their hypothesis?
4. Why do scientists share data and communicate with each other?
5. What is a theory and how is it different than a hypothesis?
6. What is an observation?
7. What is a qualitative observation?
8. What is a quantitative observation?
9. What is an inference?
10.
Why do scientists write and use procedure?
11.
What is the independent variable in an experiment?
12.
What is the dependent variable in an experiment?
13.
What is a constant in an experiment?
14.
Why is it really important to keep everything besides the
independent variable constant in an experiment?
15.
What is an experiment in terms of the independent and
dependent variables and constants?
16.
Write the major steps of the scientific method in order?