Student Learning Map for Unit: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (4.2)
Key Learning(s):
The Earth is made up of different layers that are dynamic. There is a connection between the features of the Earth and the rock
cycle. Phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes result from tectonic activity. The current location of the continents is the result
of past plate movement and is continually changing. Sand forms in many different ways. There are differences between
active/passive and primary/secondary coasts. Humans make modifications to the coastline for many reasons.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How is Earth’s inside different from its outside?
What is Continental Drift and Seafloor Spreading?
What can sediments tell you about biological productivity and ecological concerns?
How do we classify sediment?
How do sedimentation processes differ based on their location?
How are coasts classified and how do they change over time?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
The Study of Sediments
Continental Shelf
Sediments
Deep Ocean
Sediments
Sediments as
Economic Resources
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Lesson Essential Question(s):
What techniques do scientists
use to study ocean sediments?
(A)
How do scientists use ocean
sediments to study the past?
(A)
How are sediments classified
by origin? (ET)
What processes affect
sedimentation on the
Continental Shelf? (A)
What are recent and relict
sediments? (A)
How does the rate of
Continental Shelf
sedimentation compare to the
rate of deep ocean
sedimentation? (A)
What processes affect
sedimentation in the deep
ocean? (A)
What is the carbonate
compensation depth? (A)
Why do siliceous deposits
dominate sediments below the
carbonate compensation depth?
(A)
How do scientists think
ferromanganese and
phosphorite nodules form? (A)
How does the study of ocean
sediments relate to the
economic importance of
sediments? (ET)
What are the characteristics and
relative abundance of
sediments? (A)
How are sediments classified
by size? (A)
What are the effects of erosion
and deposition? (A)
KEY:
(A) – Acquisition Lesson
(ET) – Extended Thinking
Vocabulary:
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Bottom profiling
Clamshell sampler
Grab sampler
Paleoceanography
Seismic profile
Seismic reflection
Siliceous oozes
Stratrigraphy
Why does deep ocean sediment
tend to have the same particle
composition as surface water
above it? (A)
Vocabulary:
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Biogenous
Cosmogenous
Hydrogenous
Lithogenous
Meteorite
Meteors
Microtektites
Model from Learning-Focused Strategies. Thompson, M., Thompson, J. (2008)
Vocabulary:
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Recent sediments
Relict sediments
Turbidites
Turbidity currents
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Calcareous
Ferromanganese
nodules
Hydrogenous sediment
Ooze
Radiolarians
Siliceous zone
Tests
Ooids
Ooliths