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Interactions: The Lithosphere 
Unit 3      Your Task for this unit 
Essential Questions
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  What are the parts and structures of the lithosphere? Learn the parts of the Lithosphere

  Illustrate Earth's Interior

  Identify Land forms

  Group the kinds of rocks


Learn vocabulary
 
 

 

  Activity 3.00  Parts of the Lithosphere
Study Questions
Activity_3.01 
Earth's Interior
Study Questions
Activity 3.02 
 Earth's Land Forms
Study Questions

Activity 3.03 Kinds of Rocks
Study Questions
erosionActivity 3.04
Earth Processes
Study Questions

mntnActivity 3.05 Lithosphere
Vocabulary

Unit 3 Study Guide 1 
 

Textbook
Blue Planet:  pp. 37-40

Web Links
Lithosphere Links

Science Reading
Cadillac Desert
A Dangerous Place
Volcano Cowboys
Mars , by Ben Bova
Earthsteps: A Rock's
   Journey Through Time

How is the recycling of matter important in a closed system?
Work as an effective team member

Make a plan to improve your independent learning skills

  Join Class Discussion 

Demonstrate your science investigation skills.

  Activity 3.10 
Earth System Cycles
     The Rock Cycle
    ( Water cycle,
     Carbon Cycle)
  Activity 3.11 
Unit 3 Study Guide 1 

Textbook
Dr. Art: Chapter 2
Blue Planet: pp 9-14 
                 pp.130-13




                                 How is the Earth's
surface affected by potential energy  changing  to Kinetic Energy?

Measure energy arriving in your school yard 

Write a report 

Compare results


 

  Activity 3.20 
Potential to Kinetic Energy
     Craters
     Landslides
     Earthquakes
     Erosion  (..)
Activity 3.21
Videoconference 

Unit 3 Study Guide 1 

Textbook
Dr. Art: 
Blue Planet:


How does soil integrate the other spheres and help them all work together?
  Learn GLOBE Protocols 

Start taking GLOBE measurements

  Meet other SOAR-High students

Activity 3.30 
Introduction to Soils  Just Passing Through
- Notetaking Guide
GLOBE logoActivity 3.31
GLOBE Introduction to Soils

Soil Gallery wksht
Activity 3.32 Soil Characterization
Intro


Soil Char worksheet

Activity 3.33
Soil Characterization Lab
Project Guide for Soil Characterization report
Activity 3.34
How much soil is there?
Unit 3 Study Guide 2 

Web Links
Soil Science Education

Textbook
Blue Planet: pp.128-130

How  is the transfer of  energy related to  the motion in Earth's lithosphere and interior.   Join Class Discussion   
Activity 3.40 
Plate Tectonics
Activity 3.41
Introduction to Mountain Building
(Sandbox intro ppt)
Mtn Vocabulary
Activity 3.42
Discovering Plate boundaries

Activity 3.43  Uplift

Activity 3.44 Faulting  (ppt)
Fault Vocabulary
Activity 3.45  The Geologic Time Scale

Activity 3.46
MC:  Modeling of fault growth


Activity 3.47
MC:  Locating 'hidden' faults using seismicity data




 

 

Unit 3 Study Guide 2 

Textbook
Blue Planet: p76-88
                 pp. 92-104

 

How do rocks deform and change?
http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/content/4/chemistry/findoils/findoilch3pg5.html
Observatorium Teacher Guides
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/education/teach_guide/index.html
NASA: Centrifugal Force
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/space/centrifugal/centrifugal_entry.html
 
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