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Honors Earth & Space Science: Unit 1 Test Study Guide

Important: You will be allowed to use one “cheat sheet” to help you during part of the test. The cheat sheet must be on an 8.5” x 11” piece of paper (normal paper size). It has to be original work, handwritten by you, with nothing attached to it or photocopied on it. You will be provided with a conversion reference sheet for dimensional analysis problems.

• the nature of science (No Bones assignment)

• good vs bad science

  • possible “red flags” for bad science

  • components of good science

• terms

  • science

  • hypothesis

  • scientific theory

  • law

  • fact

  • independent variable

  • dependent variable

  • constants

  • control

  • subjective

  • objective

  • empirical

• graphs

  • know the main parts of a graph

  • recognize the different types of graphs (pie chart, scatter plot, line graph, bar graph and histogram) and know when each should be used

  • know how to appropriately plot data

  • know how to interpret a graph

  • recognize misleading, incorrect or poorly made graphs 

  • understand correlation vs causation

• scientific notation

  • be able to go from standard notation to scientific notation and scientific notation to standard notation

  • be able to use your calculator with scientific notation in a math problem

• dimensional analysis

  • be able to use (and show!) dimensional analysis to perform conversions between units