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SAINT MARY HIGH SCHOOL
“LIVE TO LEARN, LEARN TO LIVE”
Departamento de Ciencias
Materia: Science
Profesora: Alejandra Mora
Trimestral III Trimestre
Nivel: 7mo
Fecha de Entrega del Temario: Lunes 02 de Noviembre
Fecha de aplicación de la prueba: Jueves 19 de Noviembre
Objectives
Earth’s Spheres
Contents
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How do matter and energy
move through Earth’s
spheres?
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To describe the
Earth’s spheres and
their interactions.
To explain the energy
budget that occurs
inside the plant Earth.
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Explain the Earth System.
Define geosphere and describe
Earth’s compositional layers.
Define hydrosphere and explain
where is found.
Define cryosphere, naming the
forms solid water takes.
Explain atmosphere and its size
and composition.
Define and explain biosphere.
Describe how Earth’s spheres
interact.
Give examples of interactions
among Earth’s spheres.
Identify the main source of
energy in the Earth system.
Describe how Earth’s energy
budget explains the flow of
energy in the Earth’s system.
Explain how an unbalanced
energy budget can affect Earth’s
climate.
Sources
The book: THE
DYNAMIC EARTH
UNIT 1
Lesson 1
Notebook
Virtual Lessons
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Soil Formation
How does soil form?
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Geologic change over time.
How do we learn about
Earth’s history?
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Relative Dating
How are the relative ages of
rock measured?
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Define soil.
Explain how soil forms.
Identify the factors that affect
soil development, including
living things.
Define humus.
Define soil horizon.
Define soil profile.
Describe a typical soil profile.
Explain how soil characteristics
are influenced by the process of
soil formation and living things.
State
the
principle
of
UNIFORMITARIANISM.
Define fossils.
Describe the ways organisms
can be preserved as fossils.
List examples of trace fossils.
Explain how fossils supply
evidence of geologic change.
Relate the composition and
texture of sedimentary rocks to
the environments in which the
rocks formed.
Describe and give evidence for
the movement of continents
over time.
List types of evidence that
support that Earth’s climate has
change over time.
Define relative dating.
Describe
deposition
of
sedimentary rock layers.
Summarize and apply the law of
crosscutting relationships.
Summarize how scientists can
use fossils to determine the
relative age of rock layers.
Describe geologic columns and
their use.
Determine
the
difference
between relative dating and
absolute dating.
Name the 2 types of absolute
dating.
The book: THE
DYNAMIC EARTH
UNIT 1
Lesson 5
Notebook
Virtual Lessons
The book: THE
DYNAMIC EARTH
UNIT 2
Lesson 1
Notebook
Virtual Lessons
The book: THE
DYNAMIC EARTH
UNIT 2
Lesson 2
Notebook
Virtual Lesson
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The Geologic Time Scale
What is the geologic time
scale?
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Describe the principle of
catastrophism in terms of the
rate of geologic change.
Describe the principle of
uniformitarianism in terms of
the rate of geologic change.
Explain what geologists mean
today when they use the term
uniformitarianism.
Explain how the age of Earth
has been determined
Describe the geologic time scale
and explain how it is divided
into different spans of time.
List the four major divisions of
Earth’s history.
Describe major events in the
geologic
history
during
Precambrian time, Paleozoic
era, Mesozoic era, and Cenozoic
era.
The book: THE
DYNAMIC EARTH
UNIT 2
Lesson 4
Notebook
Virtual Lesson