Earthwatch Application open for 2017

Click here to start your application for a fellowship to travel next summer for sophomores & junior (as of fall 2016).  Get started during the summer and then all you need in the fall is teacher recommendations.  Two of our students are attending this summer, one is traveling to Colorado and the other to Florida.

Earthwatch application

HW #6 for 6/2

1) HW #6: pg. 354-6 #27-28, 48, 50 pg. 357 #4-5
2) Late HW #1-6 due Fri. 6/3, textbooks due 6/3

HW #5 for 5/31

1) HW #5: pg. 333 #3-6
2) Late HW #1-7 due Fri. 6/3, textbooks due 6/3

HW #4 for 5/26

1) HW #4 pg. 694 #14-15, 25-26
2) Composition book due this Fri 5/27
3) Late HW #1-7 due Fri. 6/3

Study Guide for Final

Spring 2016 Study Guide for Final

Topics to be covered:

·         Conservation of Mass

·         Moles, Molar Mass, and Molecules

·         Nuclear Processes/Radioactivity

·         Thermodynamics and Energy

Vocabulary

Law of conservation of mass

Reactants

Products

Moles

Molar mass

Nuclear fusion vs. fission

Isotopes

Alpha decay

Beta decay

Gamma ray decay

Penetrating power

Half-life

Greenhouse gases

Climate change

Atomic number

Atomic mass

Thermal energy

Heat flow

Temperature

Exothermic

Endothermic

Specific Heat

Law of conservation of energy

Know how to do the following:

Moles and Conservation of mass

·         Convert grams of molecules to number of moles (and the reverse) and molecules

·         Understand what Avogadro’s number represents

·         Molar mass of molecules and what they represent

·         Relationship between average atomic mass and number of moles

Nuclear Chemistry

·         Calculating how much of sample is left in half-life questions

·         Calculating how long a sample has been decaying for based on how much of an element has decayed/remains

·         Identifying missing elements in nuclear decay equations

·         Comparison of penetrating power of each type of decay

·         Writing down alpha and beta decay reactions of nuclear active elements

·         Problems of fossil fuels vs. nuclear power plants

·         Pros and cons of nuclear power plants

·         Compare fusion vs. fission reactions for amount of energy released

Thermodynamics

·         Modeling of molecular movements of gas, liquid and solid

·         Difference between solid, liquid and gas in terms of energy and shape

·         Modeling of heat flow and molecular movements depending on temperature

·         Examples of endothermic and exothermic reactions

·         Units of specific heat equation and each symbol

·         Calculating heat, specific heat, grams or change in temperature using Q = s ∙m∙DT

·         Identifying elements from the specific heat values

·         Effects of greenhouse gases/types of greenhouse gases

HW #3 for 5/24

1) HW #3—pg. 678 #3b-c, 5-6, pg. 694 #12, 13b-c
2) Composition book due this Fri 5/27

HW #2 for 5/23

HW #2
1) HW #2 pg. 213 #51, 52