Earth Materials and Processes Unit: word bank and objectives
These are the key words we will encounter during the Earth Materials unit that will help you comprehend the unit better. There are
also essential questions and objectives that are important for this unit.
I. Minerals (20.1)
Mineral
Physical property
Subsurface mining
Ore deposits
Surface mining
II. Rock Cycle (Rock Cycle handouts and guided notes)
Magma
Lava
Igneous rock
Intrusive rock
Extrusive rock
Sedimentary rock
Sediment
Clastic rock
Chemical rock
Organic rock
Metamorphic rock
Foliated rock
Rock cycle
TEST 1 – Minerals, Rocks and the Rock Cycle
III. Weathering/Soils (21.1)
abrasion
biological weathering
chemical weathering
differential weathering
frost wedging
mechanical weathering
soil
weathering
IV. Erosion/Surface Water (21.2, yellow supplement)
delta
drainage basin
erosion
flood plain
glacier
mass wasting
zone of saturation
river/tributary
stream deposit
watershed
wave action
wind erosion
divergent
mid-ocean ridge
plate boundary
seafloor spreading
subduction
tectonic plate
Mesozoic Era
Paleozoic Era
parent isotope
period
pre-cambrian time
principle of original
horizontality
principle of superposition
strata
strata correlation
strata correlation
unconformity
uniformitarianism
Cladograms
Fossil
index fossil
replaced remains
TEST 2 – Weathering, Erosion and Surface Water
V. Plate Tectonics (12.1)
convection cell
convergent
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Geologic Time (21.4)
Absolute dating
Cenozoic Era
cross-cutting
daughter isotope
eon
era
radioactive decay
relative dating
VII. Fossils (21.4)
carboniferous film
cast/mold
trace fossil
TEST 3 – Plate Tectonics and Geologic Time
Essential Questions
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How do minerals form on Earth and how do humans benefit from them?
How does matter cycle through magma and the solid Earth?
What role do weathering and erosion play in the rock cycle?
How can Earth’s history be reveled in its geology?
Performance Objectives
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Describe the chemical make-up of minerals and mineral development
Describe some of the uses of minerals
Explain how internal energy of the Earth drives matter to cycle through magma and the solid Earth
Describe how a rock changes as it goes through the rock cycle
Describe the effect of weathering and erosion on rocks
Describe different types of fossils, their formations and fossil records
Describe how the age of rock strata can be determined using evidence from rock sequencing, fossils and radioactive dating
Describe the divisions of geologic time