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 * Ch. 9 Study Guide—There are 25 questions on the IOLA**

Sun’s effects on Earth and how we receive its energy

How the sun’s energy is transferred and what happens to that energy

Gases that make up Earth’s atmosphere, by percentage

What ozone does to ultraviolet radiation

Know what percentage of solar radiation reaches the Earth’s surface

Know why not all areas of Earth’s surface receive the same amount of radiation and what effect that difference in radiation has on the different latitudes

__Vocabulary__: reflection, radiation, conduction, convection, inversion, Coriolis effect, updraft, downdraft, downburst, jet stream, prevailing westerlies, polar easterlies, eddies, doldrums

Know what a convection current is and what the steps are, in order, for how it works

Understand how air pressure, differences in heating, and wind are related


 * Ch. 10 Study Guide—There are 13 questions on the IOLA**

Ocean currents’ effects (there are more than one!) on the Earth

__Vocabulary__: gyre, longshore current, wave movement, shoreline, beach, rip current, longshore drift, eddy

Wave action along the shore

How beaches are formed

What types of rock and/or minerals make up sand