CET Review

• Mohs Hardness Scale (The Geologist Can Find An Ordinary Quartz Tourists Call Diamond)

  • Talc
  • Gypsum
  • Calcite
  • Fluorite
  • Apatite
  • Orthoclase
  • Quartz
  • Topaz
  • Corundum
  • Diamond
• Moon Phases

  A) Waxing crescent

  B) First quarter

  C) Waxing gibbous

  D) Waning gibbous

  E) Waning crescent

  
• Order of adjectives (DOSShConACOMP)

  1. Determiner (some, any, the)
  2. Opinion (good, bad, beautiful)
  3. Size (small, huge, tall)
  4. Shape (round, square, thin)
  5. Condition (cold, hot, dirty)
  6. Age (old, young, antique)
  7. Color (black, white, burgundy)
  8. Origin (Philippine, British, Taiwanese)
  9. Material (Plastic, Glass, Silver)
  10. Purpose (Fishing, Tennis, Riding)
• Order of Adverbs

  1. Verb
  2. Adverb of Manner (enthusiastically, impatiently)
  3. Adverb of Place (in her room, into town)
  4. Adverb of Frequency (every morning, everyday)
  5. Adverb of Time (before lunch, before dawn)
  6. Purpose
• Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion

  • Law of Orbits: Orbits are ellipses
  • Law of Areas: Equal areas in equal time
  • Law of Periods: The square of a planet's period of revolution is directly proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun
• Non-contact Forces

  • Magnetic Force
  • Electrostatic Force
  • Gravitational Force
• Metalloids (Beyonce Sings Greatly And Acts Terribly, Period.)

  • Boron (B)
  • Silicon (Si)
  • Germanium (Ge)
  • Arsenic (As)
  • Antimony (Sb)
  • Tellurium (Te)
  • Polonium (Po)
• Prokaryotic Cell vs Eukaryotic Cell

  A) Nucleus

  B) Endoplasmic Reticulum

  C) cytoplasm

  D) lysosome

  E) mitochondria

  F) pilus

  G) capsule

  H) cell wall

  I) nucleoid

  J) flagellum

  K) golgi apparatus

  
• water balance of cells

  hypotonic solution: more solute inside the cell; cell swells.

  isotonic: equal concentration of solute; nothing happens.

  hypertonic solution: more solute in the solution; cell shrinks.

  A) hypotonic

  B) isotonic

  C) hypertonic

  
• • The umbra, within which the object completely covers the light source.
  • The antumbra extending beyond the tip of the umbra, within which the object is completely in front of the light source but too small to completely cover it.
  • The penumbra, within which the object is only partially in front of the light source.

  A) umbra

  B) penumbra

  C) antumbra

  
• Water Cycle

  A) precipitation

  B) surface runoff

  C) infiltration

  D) evaporation

  E) transpiration

  F) condensation

  
• Faults

  A) strike-slip

  B) dip-slip

  C) normal

  D) reverse

  
• Rock Cycle

  A) igneous rock

  B) sediment

  C) sedimentary rock

  D) metamorphic rock

  
• Classification of Tropical Cyclones

  A) 61

  B) 62

  C) 88

  D) 89

  E) 117

  F) 118

  G) 220

  H) 220

  
• Layers of the Earth (Discontinuities)

  A) Conard

  B) mohorovicic

  C) repetti

  D) guttenberg

  E) lehmann

  
• Machines are devices that can do: (a) multiply force (effort it takes to do certain amount of work); (b) multiply speed or distance; (c) change the direction of the force; (d) transfer energy from one place to another; or (e) transform energy from one form to another.

  
  

  There are 6 simple machines:

  • Inclined plane (IP)
  • Lever (L)
  • Screw (S)
  • Wheel and Axis (W&A)
  • Pulley (P)
  • Wedge (W)