8th Grade FSA Review

Nature of Science

100

✅What is a triple beam balanced used for? In what units does it measure? 

✅Measures Mass in grams (g)

200

  ✅What is Pseudoscience? 🔴Give an Example

   ✅The practice of building information based on myth and not evidence and testable explanations. Not really a Science

🔴Example: Astrology

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300

✅ What is theory?  🔴Give an Example

✅A scientific EXPLANATION of an event that occurs in nature.

🔴 Example:

- Theory of Evolution

- Big-Bang Theory

400

✅What is the difference between REPETITION and REPLICATUON? ✅Why must it be done in an experiment? 

✅Repetition is when the scientist repeats its own experiment and replication is when another scientist repeats the experiment. 

✅It must be done to make sure experiments are accurate. 

500

 ✅What is the independent Variable? ✅Where is it located on a graph?

✅The independent variable is the factor that the scientist changes during an experiment. ✅It is located on the X-Axis of a graph. 

600

✅How do you measure the volume of a rock using the graduated cylinder?

✅Place water inside the Graduated cylinder. Check the starting volume. Drop the rock inside. Check how much the water level went up and subtract from the starting volume of water.  

Life Science

100

✅What do we call an organism that is made up of many cells?

✅Multicellular

200

✅What is an Eukaryotic Cell?  🔴Give an example

✅A cell that contains a nucleus 🔴animal cells, plant cells, No bacteria cells

300

✅What type of Symbiotic relationship do you see in this picture? ✅Why?

✅Parasitism 

✅ Because one species benefits from the relationship and the other one is harmed. 

400

✅What are 2 structures that plant cells have that animal cells do not?  ✅What is the purpose of each one?

✅Chloroplast- For Photosynthesis

✅Cell Walls- For Protection of the plant cell

500

✅What is the product of Cell Respiration? ✅where does it occur? 

✅The products of Cell respiration are Carbon Dioxide, Water and ATP. ✅It occurs in the Mitochondria

600

✅What are the 3 things stated in the cell theory? 

✅- All organisms come from pre-existing cells

✅-All organisms are made out of 1 or more cells

✅- the cell is the basic unit of life. 

Earth Science

100

✅What kind of rock forms from lava or magma? 

✅Igneous Rock

200

✅Name 1 way humans negatively impact Earth and the result. 

Many answers but some could be:

✅1. deforestation = trees are gone

✅2. urbanization = reduced air & water quality, trees are cut down to make buildings

✅3. Pollution

300

✅What type of plate boundary occurs when 2 plates collide against each other?  ✅List 2 effects of plates colliding? 

✅Convergent. 

✅Earthquakes, create mountains or volcanos

400

✅Where in the world are most volcanoes located?   ✅why are they there?

✅They are located in the ring of fire. 

✅They are located there because that is where tectonic plates meet and crash (collide) against each other. 

500

✅How are weathering and erosion different? 

✅Weathering is the breaking down of rock and soil physically or chemically while ✅Erosion is the movement of soil and rocks by things like wind, water, glaciers and even humans. 

600

✅What is the Law of superposition? ✅What are some things that may affect it?

✅It is a law that states that the bottom layers and the fossils in them are older than the layers on top. 

✅The order of the layers may be affected by erosion, volcanos and even earthquakes. 

Space Science

100

✅What are the names of all the planets in order from closer to sun to farthest from sun? 

✅Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn Uranus Neptune

200

✅What are the 3 main color of Stars? ✅What does each color represent?

✅Blue- hottest

✅Yellow- medium Heat

✅Red- Least Hot

300

✅How are distances measured in the universe as opposed to distances measured with-in our solar system?

✅Distances in the universe are too far so they are measured in Light-years but ✅distances with-in our solar system are measured in AU. 

400

✅Look at the picture: Which letter represents Summer time for Florida and all of North America? ✅How do you know? 

✅B- 

✅Because if you draw the Axis, it is pointing towards the sun. 

500

✅What type of eclipse does this picture represents? ✅Explain how it occurs

✅solar eclipse 

✅It occurs when the moon gets directly between Earth and the sun, and the moon casts a shadow over Earth. Areas of the Earth where the shadow is casted, will experience night time. 

600

✅What are the 3 outside layers of the sun's atmosphere? 

✅Which is the only one that you can see with your eyes without help from other instruments?✅What other features of the Sun are found in this layer?

✅Corona, Chromosphere and Photosphere. 

✅The only one that can be seen with the un-aided eye is the photosphere. 

✅Sunspots and Solar Flares

Physical Science

100

✅A melting candle wax is an example of what type of change in matter?

✅Physical

200

✅What is the difference between weight and mass?

✅Weight = is based on planet's gravity (can change)

✅Mass= is based on the amount of matter. (doesn't change) 

300

✅What do we call the number on the top left corner? ✅How many protons does one atom of Iron have? ✅Electrons? 

✅ Atomic Number

✅26 protons

✅26 electrons

400

Look at  this picture:

✅What is the net force in the picture below? ✅Is the force balanced or unbalanced?  ✅To what direction is the box moving: right or left?

✅The net force is 50 N. 

✅The force is unbalanced 

✅the box will move to the right.

500

Look at the graphs: ✅Which graph is showing the following: Samuel was walking to school. He stopped to find his cell phone inside his bag. Then he walked faster to get to school on time. 

✅B

600

✅What are the 3 ways in which thermal (heat) energy moves? ✅Which one is responsible for wind moving, ocean currents, heat moving inside the sun and magma moving inside the mantle of Earth?

✅Conduction, Radiation and Convection.

✅The one responsible for wind, ocean currents and mantle movement is Convection.