CHANGING EARTH UNIT

Key Vocabulary: Lesson 1 - Plate Tectonics -- Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust, lithosphere, asthenosphere, tectonic plate, continental drift, Pangaea, mid-ocean ridge, convection, convection current, theory of plate tectonics, divergent boundary, convergent boundary, transform boundary, rift valley, hot spot, subduction
Lesson 2 - Earthquakes --fault, stress, earthquake, seismic wave, focus, epicenter, seismograph, aftershock, liquefaction, tsunami
Lesson 3 - Mountains and Volcanoes folded mountain, fault-block mountain, volcano, lava, pyroclastic flow, magma, acid rain, geyser
Lesson 4 -Geological Age  fossil, original remains, relative age, absolute age, index fossil, half-life, uniformitarianism, geological time scale
Lesson 5 - Natural Resources natural resource, renewable resource, nonrenewable resource, fossil fuel, conservation, recycling, nuclear energy, fission, hydroelectric energy, solar cell, geothermal energy, biomass, hydrogen fuel cell
Weekly Calendar--September 28-Oct. 2
Monday  Questions on volcanoes
Tuesday volcano video
Wednesday Volcano models due
Thursday Notes and discussion geological age
Friday Missouri/Earth Time Lines
 
Unit Resources -The following links will provide information for review and study
Earth in Motion Continental Drift Earth Force Puzzles of the Earth
Plate Tectonics Earthquakes 1 Earthquakes 2 Types of Volcanoes
Active Volcanoes Roots of a Volcano Plate Tectonic Quiz Earthquakes and Volcanoes Quiz
Earthquake and Volcano Matching Earth Like a Puzzle Faultline Alternative Energy Project
Recent Earthquakes Layers of the Earth Geologic Time Line Earth History Timeline
Dynamic Earth

Volcano World

    
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Earth Science Photos of the Day
Unit GLEs --Strand 5 Processes and Interactions of the Earth's Systems 
2B -There are internal processes and sources of energy within the geosphere that cause changes in Earth's crustal plates.
a. Explain convection currents are the result of uneven heating inside the mantle resulting in the melting of rock materials, convection of magma, eruption/flow of magma and movement of crustal plates.
b. Explain how rock layers are affected by the folding, breaking and uplifting of rock layers due to plate motion.
c. Describe how the movement of crustal plates can cause earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that can result in mountain building and trench formation.
2C --Continual changes in the Earth's materials and surface that result from internal and external processes are described by the rock cycle.
a. Explain how heating and cooling in the mantle layer leads to the formation of metamorphic rocks and some igneous rocks.
b. Make inferences about the formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks from their physical  properties.
c. Explain and diagram the external and internal processes of the rock cycle.