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Watch the Discovery Streaming video Earth Science: Rocks and Minerals.
Take the quiz for the movie on Angel.
Go into the Weathering and Erosion folder.
What is the difference between erosion and weathering? Pick one of these
resources to find out.
o Watch the movie Basics of Geology: Erosion and Weathering
o Look at the YouTube clip Weathering and Erosion from Scholastic and
find out.
o Go to What’s the difference for a simple definition.
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Make sure to look at Erosion and Weathering pictures to make sure you understand the
difference between erosion and weathering.
Read Florence Bascom and complete the Weathering Lab with the story or the other
lab.
Try the Erosion experiment and watch the Howe Cavern video.
Watch the PowerPoint The Geology of McIntosh Reserve.
Look in the Minerals folder. Watch the BrainPop Science -> Earth Systems -> Mineral
Identification.
Read one of the following articles:
o Using Rocks and Minerals
o Mineralogist
o Collecting Rocks and Minerals
Naica Crystal Cave has wonderful pictures of large crystals in a cave.
Complete one of the activities and fill out the Mohs Hardness Scale in the study guide:
o Crystal Theory Lab
o Experiments with Crystals
o Growing Crystals
o Paper Crystals
o Rock Candy
o Minerals Worksheets
o Minerals in your house
Take the quiz to check your understanding for today.
Go to Rocks.
Look in the Types of Rocks folder and complete at least one activity.
o Metamorphic and Sedimentary Rocks
o Testing for Limestone
o Let’s Make Rocks
o Cookie Model Rocks
o Types of Rocks – 5 worksheets (you only need to complete one)
Look at the presentation on Igneous Rocks.
Complete the gizmo Rock Classification and submit your answers in the dropbox.
Make sure you have filled out the study guide section about the three types of rocks.
Go to BrainPop -> Science -> Earth System -> Soil.
Look through the soil activities folder and complete at least one activity.
o Sol Layers
o Two Soil Sample Labs
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o How is soil made?
o Making Quicksand
o Worksheets
Now go to the Rocks and Minerals Websites. Complete at least one activity:
o Find Minerals in Your Environment.
o Solve The Mystery of the Golden
o Are you a Rock Star? Do you know your gems?
o Try Mohs’ Drill and the Castle of Doom
First go to BrainPop -> Earth System -> Rock Cycle. Look at FYI in depth.
Open the Rock Cycle folder.
Now complete one of the following.
o Rock Cycle PowerPoint
o The Rock Cycle
o Read About the rock cycle
o Animated Rock Cycle
Complete the Rock cycle Discussion.
Play the Rock Cycle Game. If you don’t have a friend try it by yourself just to see that
the process doesn’t always happen in the same cycle.
Try one of the labs.
o Making Rocks Lab
o Crayon Rock Cycle Lab
Do the Rock Cycle gizmo and submit your answer sheet in the dropbox.
Study Guide
SES1. Students will investigate the composition and formation of Earth systems, including the
Earth’s relationship to the solar system.
e. Identify the transformations and major reservoirs that make up the rock cycle,
hydrologic cycle, carbon cycle, and other important geochemical cycles.
SES2. Students will understand how plate tectonics creates certain geologic features, materials,
and hazards.
d. Associate specific plate tectonic settings with the production of particular groups of
igneous and metamorphic rocks and mineral resources.
SES3. Students will explore the actions of water, wind, ice, and gravity that create landforms
and systems of landforms (landscapes).
a. Describe how surface water and groundwater act as the major agents of physical and
chemical weathering.
b. Explain how soil results from weathering and biological processes acting on parent
rock.
c. Describe the processes and hazards associated with both sudden and gradual mass
wasting.
d. Relate the past and present actions of ice, wind, and water to landform distribution
and landscape evolution.
e. Explain the processes that transport and deposit material in terrestrial and marine
sedimentary basins, which result, over time, in sedimentary rock.
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Monday - Weathering and Erosion
Describe/define
Examples
Mechanical
Weathering
Chemical
Weathering
Biological
Weathering
Erosion
What is the difference between wind erosion and gravitational erosion?
Tuesday – Minerals
What is mineral ore?
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The eight tests used to help identify minerals.
Color
Crystal shape
Luster
Hardness
Streak
Cleavage
Fracture
Specific gravity
May not be useful since many minerals have the same color.
May be difficult to notice since crystals can be very small.
Describes how light reflects from a mineral; can be dull, metallic, pearly, glassy,
greasy, or silky.
Resistance to being scratched, based on Mohs’ scale of hardness.
Color of mineral’s powder when rubbed on a white tile; can be different from the
mineral color.
Ability to split along flat surfaces; especially useful in identify mica which is made of
paper thin layers.
Manner in which mineral breaks if there is no cleavage.
Density of mineral compared to water.
Four properties of minerals.
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Draw each crystalline shape. Examples of minerals with each shape have been given to you.
Shape
drawing
cubic
tetragonal
hexagonal
orthorhombic
monoclinic
triclinic
mineral
diamond
chalcopyrite
graphite
sulfur
gypsum
turquoise
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Mohs Hardness Scale
Hardness
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Mineral
Common Test
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Wednesday - Rocks
Formed by
Examples
Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Regional metamorphism occurs when large areas of rock are changed by heat and pressure. This can
occur when mountains are created. Examples are:
Contact metamorphism occurs when hot magma bakes rocks that come in contact with it. This affects a
smaller area than regional metamorphism. Examples are:
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Thursday - Soil
Label the soil profile and describe what is found there. Label the horizons. Use all of the word bank
words in your descriptions.
Word bank: Ground level, regolith, topsoil, subsoil, bedrock, seeds germinate, sand, decomposers,
humus, parent material, organic layer, leaching, weathered, clay, roots, leaf litter, rock, mineral, plants,
animals, eluviations, silt
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Define:
Organic –
Inorganic –
Mature soil –
Soil horizons-
Results from soil lab –
Lab –
Hypothesis –
Data –
Conclusions-
Friday - Rock Cycle
What is a cycle?
What makes the process that occurs in rocks over time a cycle?
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Draw an arrow to represent each possible transition from one rock type to another. Then label
each arrow with the process that occurs, such as “weathering” or “erosion and deposition.”
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