Earth History

• 1. Why might Climate Change lead to more-intense flooding in many places?

  2. Why is the Netherlands a good place to look for engineering ideas for flooding?

  3. What are some ways to reduce the effects of floods?

2/1 - Make a list of all the different kinds of evidence needed to answer the Essential Question.

2/2 - Use the principle of superposition to list the youngest 3 strata of Minor Canyon from youngest to oldest. Animation of Minor Canyon Formation – mheducation.com

Minor Canyon, AZ

2/5 - Make a Venn diagram comparing an Intrusion with a Fault. (DE pgs. 94-96)

2/6 - List the strata from minor canyon from youngest to oldest. (Hint: Start from the bottom and use the principles of superposition and crosscutting to determine what is younger) Animation of Minor Canyon Formation – mheducation.com

2/7 - Color the Rock Cycle handout with at least 5 different colors. Answer the 3 questions. Paste or tape into a left-hand page of a notebook.

2/8 - Answer from Dinosaur Plague (2009) 15:05, NOVA - pbs.org or Old ES pages. 146-148:

1. What is a Coprolite?

2. What can we learn from dinosaur dung?

3. How can amber have important fossils in it?

2/9 - Notes on The Day the Mesozoic Died (2012) 33:43 - hhmi.org

2/12 - Summarize your notes from 2/9.

2/13 - Relative Dating Review

2/15 - From the video, list some of the oldest things on Earth.

2/16 - Put the following in order from largest to smallest: Period, Epoch, Eon, and Era

2/20 - Use the Geologic Timetable to answer the following:

• 1. Is the beginning of the Earth found at the top or bottom of the chart?

  2. What is the first kind of Flora to be found on Earth?

1. What era and period do each of the following first appear? Flowering plants, Mammals, Reptiles, Trilobites

   1. When do Trilobites dissappear?

2/21 - From Calendar in Ice - youtube.com answer the following:

1. Where are the oldest tree rings in a tree?

2. When do light colored rings grow? Dark rings?

3. What makes a thicker tree ring?

4. What other conditions can tree rings tell us about?

5. What shows a dry season in a Glacier?

6. How can big events like volcano eruptions help us date layers in ice cores?

Tree Rings Simulation - Dendrochronology - scied.ucar.edu - Work through Levels 1, 2, 3 of the interactive dendrochronology activity.

2/22 - The Origin of Tetrapods (2012) 17:11 - hhmi.org

1) What was the importance of finding Tik-Tal-Lik?

2) How were relative dating principles used?

3) How were absolute dating principles used?

2/23 - How many protons and electrons are in the element on screen? 18 each

What element is this? Argon

Absolute Dating Article - Article on methods of Absolute Dating with embedded videos and interactive used with Absolute Dating Rock Layers WS.

2/26 - In different isotopes of the same element: Absolute Dating Article

1. What stays the same?

2. What changes?

3. What makes an isotope radioactive?

4. Why is Carbon-14 dating more complicated for the last 250 years?

2/27 - A fossil of a mosquito in amber has 0.5 (one-half or 50%) of the original carbon-14 material in it. If the half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years, how old is the mosquito? In another 5730 years from now, how much of the original Carbon-14 material will remain?

2/28 - Make a Venn diagram comparing Biotic Factors and Abiotic Factors. (Old LS pg. 434) How abiotic and biotic factors make an ecosystem - youtube.com

3/6 - Presentism is the tendency to judge past events in human history by modern values - as opposed to in their historical context. Whiggism - Judging human history as being always onwards and upwards, progressing to our current values and knowledge.

What are problems with these two ways of judging history?