Unit B and C: Rocks and Erosion and Deposition
Use your Composition Book and the pages done in class. Know and understand the following concepts:
➔ Know all vocabulary that was given to you (located in your composition book)
➔ What is the rock cycle? (Be able to explain and describe how the three major types of rock are formed).
 What is a sedimentary rock? How does a sedimentary rock form?
 What is a metamorphic rock? How does a metamorphic rock form?
 What is an igneous rock? How does an igneous rock form?
➔ Graphing-pgs. C-14 to C-17 (Activity 27 in your composition book)-as well as the formative assessment done in class
 Be able to create a bar graph
 Know how to correctly label a bar graph
 Mean line
➔ Mean (average) for time period using a data table-pgs. C-14 to C-17 (Activity 27 in your composition book)
➔ Given a certain location, where should you build a house-All pages and activities of Unit C: Erosion and
Deposition
 Which site do you think would be the most stable place to build
 Explain your answer in terms of how building at that site could affect the land
 Use evidence and explain at least one trade-off of your decision
➔ Know how different landforms are formed-All pages and activities of Unit C: Erosion and Deposition
 Landforms as a direct result from erosion
 Landforms as a direct result from deposition
 How are beaches formed
 Where are beaches commonly found
 Swamps
 Wetlands
 Marshes
 Deltas
 How humans play help a factor in creating or destroying landforms
➔ Explain how weathering leads to erosion, which leads to deposition-pgs C-22 to C-27
(Activity 29 in your composition book)
 Know the process of all three
 Results of all three
 How human activity plays a factor in all three
➔ How do different process affect the land-All pages and activities of Unit C: Erosion and Deposition
 Different landforms erode at different rates
 Affect farming and construction have on the land
 Which soils erode faster
➔ Know how flooding and deltas can relate to farming and fertile soil-pgs C-18 to C-234(Activity 28 to 30 in your
composition book)
 Where would you find the most fertile soil
 What can construction and farming cause