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Physical Geology-Timeline
Units One - Three
Nature of Science
Scientific Method
Science Inquiry
Critical Thinking
Measurement & Graphing
STEM
Earth’s Roundness Lab
Earth’s Circumference Lab
Chapter 1
Days 10-15
Minerals:
Igneous Rocks:
Atoms and Elements
Ionic &Covalent Bonds
Crystallinity
Mineral Criteria
Mineral Properties
Mineral Lab
Unit One
Chapter 3,4
Days 10-15
Mafic and Felsic
Intrusive and Extrusive
Earth’s Interior
Magnetic reversals
Bowen’s Reaction Series
Igneous Rock Lab
Unit Two
Chapter 5
Days 5-10
Unit Three
Units Four -Six
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rocks
The Ocean and Tides
Ocean features
Division of Sedimentary Rocks
Streams
Sedimentary Rock Lab
Chapter 6
Days 5-10
Pressure stress and temperature
Foliated and Non Foliated
Parent Rock & metamorphism
Metamorphic zones
Metamorphic Rock Lab
Unit Four
Chapter 6
Days 5-10
Glacial Geology
Glaciers and glaciation
Evidence of past glaciers
Glacial erosion and deposition
Evidence of climate change
Types of glaciers
Glacial structure, formation, and movement
Glacial Budgets Lab
Drumlins Lab
Unit Five
Chapter 8.3
Days 10-15
Unit Six
Units Seven - Nine
Earth’s History
Plate Tectonics
Seismic Waves P,S,L
Mohorovicic Boundary
Paleomagnetism / Paleoclimatology
Plate evidence and motions
Oceanic and continental plates
Sea Floor Spreading Lab
Continental Drift Lab
Locating Epicenter Lab
Chapter 17,18,19,20
Days 20-25
Unit Seven
Earth’s Resources
Geologic Rock Record
Relative and Absolute age
Principles to determine relative ages
Original horizontality
Superposition
Crosscutting Relationships
Absolute Age
Radiometric dating
Geologic time scale
Fossil record
Chapter 21,22,23
Days 20-25
Unit Eight
Energy resources
Renewable and nonrenewable
Alternative energy sources
Mining and extraction
Air and air quality
Greenhouse gasses
Water and water quality
Hypoxia and eutrophication
Chapter 24,25,26
Days 15-20
Unit Nine
Mark Waterstreet
2016-17 Physical Geology
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