MAP topics from practice MAP science test
The Science MAP test covers what you've been doing since elementary school. I try my best to teach you a variety of things but I can't cover it all.
These are some other possible topics, I may have covered them at times. You will not find all MAP topics on this list.
1. Different body systems: Digestive, Nervous, endocrine (Hormones), etc.
2. If you drop a penny and an elephant off of a building, which will hit first???? In a vaccume (without air) everything falls at the same rate. They will hit together.
3. Force = Mass x Acceleration or F=MA
4. Remember that in Ecological Succession if land is wiped out with no soil the first community in will be a pioneer species and the final community will be a climax community.
5. The types of symbiosis are mutualism (they both help each other), commensalism (one benefits, one doesn't care), and Parasitism (One benefits, and one is harmed)
6. Erosion is when any form of water or air or both wash away a landscape. Erosion helped to form the grand canyon and helps form those nice round rocks we find in streams. In farming communities "Cover crops" are planted to prevent erosion.
7. The two types of energy are Kinetic and potential energy. Kinetic is the energy of motion and potential is stored energy.
8. Electrons are negative, protons are positive, and neutrons are neutral
9. Germination is the sprouting of a seed
10. If you are watching the weather and there is "high pressure" it's going to be a nice day!
11. Plant cell walls keep the plant ridgid and contain chitin or cellulose.
12. A calorie is an energy unit of heat that we measure the nutritional value of a food with. The more calories a food has the more heat units it contains.
13. Plate techtonics is the theory that earth's crust floats around on liquid lava. Geologic processes (ones that shape the earth) have been happening all throughout history. (4.5 billion years)
14. The faster something vibrates the higher pitched sound will be heard or measured.
15. On the bottom of leaves there are structures called stomates, these let gasses including water vapor leave or enter the plant.
16. Rocks that have been formed by ancient shells such as the white cliffs of dover are called sedimentary rocks.
17. A physical change doesn't change the atomic structure of the molecule such as boiling or freezing water, the molecule is still H2O. A chemical change actually changes the molecule.
18. The round structure of the earth indicates that it was once a liquid (Magma or liquid rock)
19. The Big Bang theory says that the universe was created through a huge explosion and continues to expand today. When we observe the sky with telescopes we can witness new stars forming because their light is just now reaching us due to the fact the light travels only so fast.
20. If you filled a sealed container with soil, water, and seeds and created a closed system (nothing in or out). A plant would grow. What would the mass be after the plant grew compaired to before it grew? It would be the same.
21. The law of the conservation of Mass says that mass is never created or destroyed in a closed system.
22. The law of the conservation of Energy says that energy is never created or destroyed but only changes into different forms.
23. Faults are weak parts of the Earth's crust where two techtonic plates slide past each other. Earthquakes are more likely to occur on faults. Seismographs measure earth quakes.
24. If you start swing a pendulum and shorten the string it will swing faster.
25. Amphibians are "cold blooded or exothermic" they regulate their temperature with the environment. Mammals are "warm blooded" or endothermic, they regulate their own themperature.
26. Meiosis is sometimes called "reduction division" because it is reducing the number of chromosomes to 1/2 when they make the sex cells.
27. Sex cells arer haploid and are sometimes called gametes.
28. Body cells are diploid because their chromosomes occur in pairs.
29. RNA is read off in frames of 3 letters such as AUG GGC AUU and each of these is the code for a protien to be made. The 3 letter sequence is called a codon.
30. Inertia- A body at rest will remain at rest. A body in motion will remain in motion. The more mass the more inertia. This is why your body remains moving forward if you get into a car accident. Your body has inertia. Wear your seatbelt!
31. Parts of a cell. (know em')
32. Insulin is a hormone made from your pancreas decreases your blood sugar. If your body has trouble making insulin you may have diabetes.
33. When making crystals the final shape is determined by the atomic structure.
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