UNIT 1: Earth's History
A: 110 -111 and p. 116
Anticipation Guide Questions:
4.What was the first life on Earth like?
VOCAB: continental drift,
UNIT 2 : Rocks and Minerals
1. How does a fossil form?
2. What is the difference between a mold
and a cast?
3. What do fossils tell us about change
A: 114-122
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. What are the qualifications for
over time?
VOCAB: evolution, extinct, sedimentary rock,
something to be called a mineral?
2. Which properties help identify a
mold, cast
mineral?
3. What are some special properties of
B: 117-119
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. What is the difference between the
minerals?
VOCAB: mineral, inorganic, crystal, streak,
luster
relative and absolute age of rocks?
2. Are older rocks deeper in the ground
or closer to the surface?
3. How can you determine relative age of
rocks?
VOCAB: extrusion, intrusion, fault, law of
B: 124-127
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. How do minerals form lava?
2. How does a mineral form from a
solution?
superposition, relative age, absolute age
VOCAB: geode, crystallization, solution,
C: 127-129
C: 144-147
Anticipation Guide Questions:
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. What is the geologic time scale?
1. What are rocks made of?
2. How is geologic time divided up?
2. How can you describe a rock’s texture?
VOCAB: Cenozoic Era, Mesozoic Era,
3. How do rocks form?
Paleozoic Era,
VOCAB: igneous rock, sedimentary rock,
metamorphic rock
D: 130-133
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. How did the moon form?
2. How did Earth get into the shape it is?
3. How did the Earth’s atmosphere,
oceans and continents form?
D: 148-151
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. How are igneous rocks different from
each other?
2. Why are rocks different colors?
3. What are the uses of igneous rocks?
VOCAB: Extrusive rock, intrusive rock
drift?
3. What was wrong with Wegener’s
hypothesis?
E: 152-156
VOCAB: continental drift, pange
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. How does sediment turn into rock?
2. . What are the different types of
sedimentary rock?
3. What are the uses of sedimentary rock?
C: 23 – 29
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. Where are mid-ocean ridges found?
VOCAB: Sediment, erosion, deposition,
2. What is sea-floor spreading?
compaction, cementation
3. What is the evidence for sea-floor
spreading?
F: 160-166
VOCAB: sonar, sea-floor spreading,
Anticipation Guide Questions:
subduction
1. What are the different types of
metamorphic rocks?
D: 32-36
2. What are the uses of metamorphic rocks?
Anticipation Guide Questions:
3. What happens in the rock cycle?
1. How do plates in the Earth move?
VOCAB: foliated, rock cycle
2. What types of plate boundaries are
there?
UNIT 3: Plate Tectonics
A: 10-13
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. What is the crust of the Earth like?
2. What is the Mantle of the Earth like?
3. What is the core of the Earth like?
VOCAB: crust, mantle, lithosphere,
asthenosphere, outer core, inner core
Convection Currents notes in class
B: 18-22
Anticipation Guide Questions:
1. What is continental drift?
2. What is the evidence for continental
3. How has plate movement changed the
way Earth looks?
VOCAB: plates, plate tectonics, faults,
divergent boundary, convergent
boundary, transform boundary