Webquest link and KEY below

Here is the LINK FOR THE GEOLOGIC TIME  WEBQUEST

And HERE IS THE KEY for the Webquest worksheet.

Journal Checklist

Here is what you should have in your journal, for the journal check:

Unit 4 Title page , includes: Title (“Unit 4 - Age of the Earth”), (   )  three drawings related to the unit topic (   ) shaded in color top to bottom. (   )

Connections pages

Table of Contents (TOC) taped to page following Unit 4 title page & updated to include: Title page (   ) TOC (   ) U4Act1: Bill Nye Rocks, (   ) U4Act2: Evolution 101 part I (   ) and II (   ),  U4Act3: Rock Layer Disturbances (   ), U4Act4: Fossils (   )

U4Act1: Bill Nye Rocks completed  (   ), taped in (   ) checked (   )

U4Act2: Evolution 101 part I completed (   ) and taped in (   ) and checked  (   )

U4Act2: Evolution 101 part II completed (   ) and taped in (   ) and checked (   )

U4Act3: Rock Layer Disturbances notes copied (   ) 4 diagrams properly drawn (   )

U4Act4: Fossils completed, (   ) taped in  (   ) and checked (   ) U4Act5: Kinds of Fossils (with at least one fossil sketch)   Completed, (   ) taped in  (   )

_______/_______“Do Now’s” attempted Questions copied (   ) dated (   )  responses written (   )

NOVA Now Mass extinction video

Here is a link to the NOVA Now Mass Extinction Video that we watched in class  on Wednesday 3/22.

Fossil human ancestors readings

Click on the inks below and complete the reading on our fossil human ancestors from pages 188-193, and on your journal pages from last Friday, 3/17/17  for U4Act6: Fossil Humans,  finish defining the terms primates, hominids, Australopithecus and Neanderthals.

Pages 188-189
Pages 190-191
Pages 192-193

Evolution 101 part II link

Here is the Evolution 101 part II link

How can the rock layers be disturbed?

Today, using the play-dough we made in class, you are going to model ways that the rock layers can be disturbed.

The Principle of Superpostion: Geologists assume that the layers of rock are formed in order, with the oldest rocks on the bottom, and younger  layers on top. 

Superposition is an important idea when looking at the rock evidence to try to figure out when major events such as meteor strikes, mass extinctions (lots of fossils in a particular layer), etc., happened.

Forces within the earth, due to the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates can cause the layers of rock to be disturbed.

Using the four different colors of your play-dough, make a four layer "sedimentary rock" and   model the following types of disturbances and draw them in your journal.

 For folding and tilting, use arrows to show how you had to push on your model to cause the disturbance.

Folding: 















Tilting: 

 

Fault

Intrusion

 

 

March 2 Do Now: Types of Rock

Use THIS WEBSITE TO FIND TYPES OF ROCKS for today's Do Now (March 2).