HS-ESS2 Earth's Systems

HS-ESS2A - Earth Materials and Systems

HS-ESS2B - Plate Tectonics and Large Scale System Interactions

HS-ESS2C - The Role of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes

HS-ESS2D - Weather and Climate

Learning Goal

The concepts involved with this set of projects will aid you in understanding how everyday occurrences effect the world around them. You will be able to identify and explain the factors involved in the development of storms, how erosion and deposition change the landscape, as well being able to identify the type and origin of landforms here in Maine.

April 1

Detail the structure of the Earth starting from the core and working your way out. Include diagram of Earth showing different layers

April 8

Explain the concept of plate tectonics, including the different types of plate boundaries, the processes at each and the landforms that are associated with each boundary type. Pictures and diagrams need to be included. Be specific in your details.

April 22

Describe the effect water has on the land. Be sure to include erosion and deposition along with the landforms created by each. Pictures and diagrams should be present.

April 29

Provide information on weather. Be sure to include factors causing weather, how heat is transferred through atmosphere, and the formation of storms, along with any other related information. Be specific in your details.

CONTENT TO BE INCLUDED: These projects need detailed information for each component of content - remember, indent means it belongs to what is above - Be THOROUGH with DETAILS

EARTH'S STRUCTURE - Include pictures of each layer

Inner core/materials/temperature  

Outer core/materials/temperature/magnetism

Mantle

Asthenosphere

Lithosphere

Crust

PLATE TECTONICS - (plate tectonics tab that will have notes) - these all require you to be THOROUGH with DETAILS

Alfred Wegener

Continental Drift - Mantle Convection/convection current/Historical Evidence, Pangaea, Future

Convergent boundary - includes the following three types:

    Ocean-ocean boundary - the process including vocabulary(subduction, pluton, batholith, etc.), landforms - Marianas Trench, Island Arc - include pictures and diagrams of each

    Ocean-continent boundary - the process including vocabulary, landforms - Ring of Fire, Cascade mountains, Pluton-Cadillac Mtn. - include pictures and diagrams

    Continent-continent boundary - the process, folded/faulted(thrust) with pictures of landforms - Himalayan, Alps and Appalachian mountains - pictures and diagrams of each

Divergent boundary - continent-continent, process, landforms - Rift/Sea Floor Spreading/Mid Atlantic Ridge -  include pictures and diagrams of each

Transform boundary - process, landforms, San Andreas Fault -  include pictures and diagrams

WATER'S EFFECT ON LAND 

Erosion

    Landforms caused by moving water -  include pictures - find examples in Maine listed below

        Ocean - "the ovens", Thunder Hole, arches, rocky coast 

        Rivers - waterfalls(at least 2), gorges(Kennebec/Penobscot), canyon(Gulf Hagas), potholes(river geology)

River maturity(doesn't refer to age but to water flow)  - landforms with each stage - include pictures and diagrams - find examples in Maine

Deposition - delta/alluvial fan, Sedimentation    

Glacial activity - Identify and describe specific Maine landforms for each of these - include the picture of each

     Till, Moraine, Outwash Plain(Maine blueberry fields), Esker, erratic, tarn, kettle, cirque, arete, striations, chatter marks

WEATHER AND CLIMATE - (There is a Weather and climate tab with notes) -these all require you to be THOROUGH with DETAILS

Four factors cause weather - how they are interrelated to create weather

    1) Temperature (warm air vs. cool air - effect on moisture), 

    2) Air Pressure (high and low - weather with each/why), 

    3) Wind (jet streams - how these effect weather across United States)

    4) Moisture(humidity, dew point) - relates also with temperature

How ocean currents play a role in Earth's weather

Cold Front/Warm Front - what happens when they interact with each other, be able to illustrate process and the weather that is 

    associated when one replaces another - how these related to storms (convection currents) 

Conduction/Convection/Radiation - be sure to relate how this is a part of weather on earth

Cloud types(10) - description and weather related to each - include pictures of each

The Water Cycle - include vocabulary, diagram and description