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Fri 10/11 Webquest

A) Click on the following links.
B) Answer the questions on notebook paper (you do not have to write the question if it is restated in your answer- see example in link 1, under item 1)
C) Turn in your work to your teacher.
 
---Item 1: What is diastrophism?
Diastrophism is
---Item 2: What are some examples of disastrophism/tectonism?
 
---Item 3: Describe the concept of tectonics. (What is it?) 
---Item 4: What kind of questions might a tectonic scientist try to answer?
 
---Item 5: What are three examples of tectonic landforms?
---Item 6: What forces shape/cause tectonic landforms?
 
---Item 7: What is an aquifer?
---Item 8: What is the difference (contrast) between porosity and permeability in underground rock formations?
---Item 9: Find the table about sediments located about half-way down the article. Based upon its porosity and permeability, which kind of underground sediment would most likely contain an aquifer and why?
 
---Item 10: Find the section titled "Water is on and in the Earth."
What percentage of Earth's total water is saline, and how much surface water and ground water did we use in the United States in 2010?
---Item 11: Find the table beneath the "Where is Earth's Water Located?" section. What is the volume (in kilometers) of the amount of fresh groundwater on Earth, and what percentage of Earth's total water does
this fresh groundwater comprise?
---Item 12: (Use the same table from item 8) Compute and record the difference (subtract) between the percentage of frozen freshwater found in glaciers etc. and the percentage of freshwater found in the ground. 
 
---Item 13: Scroll down to find the section titled "Groundwater."  How does rainwater move down into the Earth to be stored as groundwater?
---Item 14: (Continue with the "Groundwater." section) What two key features in rock formations determine how much water the ground can receive and store? 
 
---Item 15: (2nd paragraph) What is the main source of oil and gas?
---Item 16: (2nd paragraph) Explain how tectonic plate processes effect the formation of oil and gas.
---Item 17: (last paragraph) Describe several other ways that tectonic plate processes are connected to oil and gas deposits.
 
---Item 18: What is one connection between tectonic plate movement and the locations of oil and natural gas deposits?
 
---Task: Write five facts from this article.
 
---Task: Write five facts from this video.
 
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---Task: Write five facts from this slide show.
 
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---Task: Write five facts from this video.

Q1W8 (9/30-10/04) and Q1W9 (10/7-10/11)

We are down to the last two weeks of quarter one. Students should have a very good idea of assessment types and the practice of positive behaviors that lead to success.  Students will need to continue to review notes, bell work, videos created, and classroom activities for a few minutes each night. These quick reviews can have a powerful impact on performance. Students should also complete study sheets before the graded target concept (mini quiz) in order to utilize the opportunity for a retake, along with the specified learning activities for that standard by the teacher given deadline.

Here is a look at the next two weeks (as always, subject to change):

Monday 9/30: Notes on ESS2.3 (rock cycle) continued

Tuesday 10/1: Finalize rock cycle

Wednesday: Begin ESS2.2 (Earth’s structure and seismic waves) Activity, Study guide ESS2.3 (rock cycle) due

Thursday: TC ESS2.3 and learning activities for ESS2.1 retake due

Friday (10/4): Finalize notes on ESS2.2

Q1W9

Monday (10/7): ESS2.2 (Earth’s structure) Study guide/sheet due

Tuesday: ESS2.2 TC, begin review for quartet test

Wednesday (10/9): Review for quartet test (this is cumulative and covers all content covered thus far this year)

Thursday: Quarter Test

Friday: Quarter Wrap up

Fall Break is October 14-18….

Standard(s) Addressed:

Standard 8.ESS2.3  Describe the relationship between the processes and forces that create igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

Standard 8.ESS2.2 Evaluate data collected from a seismograph to create a model of Earth’s structure.

Learning Targets:

  1. Describe the processes that create igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock.
  2. Represent the rock cycle in a diagram
  3. Define crystallization, compaction and cementation, lithification, erosion and deposition, and sediments.
  4. Describe the locations were igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock are found.
  5. Describe the relationships of plate boundaries and the locations of where igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock are found and the processes involved in their creation.
  6. Using topographic maps and maps of plate boundaries infer where different types of rocks will most likely be found using scientific explanations.
 
  1. Recognize that the Earth has 4 distinct layers.
  2. Explain how evidence from seismographs supports the theory that Earth has 4 layers.
  3. Students should know that earthquakes produce two different waves visible on seismographs: pressure waves (P-waves) and shear waves (S-waves) and describe the differences between them.

ESS2.1 Extinction and Geo Change LEARNING ACTIVITY

Please remember the ESS2.1 study guide/sheet must have been completed as well prior to the target concept for a re-take.  If the study guide was completed and you would like a re-take, here is the assignment (answer on paper).  This should be completed and turned in by Thursday 10/3 before class starts, with a FIT ticket if required.