Week @ a Glance – Week of 03/02-03/6

Unit 3: Earth's Features 

Chapter 4: Why did more rock layers get exposed in Desert Canyon than Keller’s Canyon?  

Monday-Tuesday    Test will be given on Thursday March 5.

Friday                       Introduce Unit 4

Students will identify:

Local, regional, and global patterns of rock formations reveal changes over time due to Earth’s forces such as earthquakes and volcanoes. The presence and location of certain fossil types indicate the order in which rock layers were formed. 

Earth Materials and Systems: Rainfall helps to shape the land and affects the types of living things found in a region. Water, ice, wind, living organisms, and gravity break rocks, soils, and sediments into smaller particles and move them around.
 

Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions: The locations of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, ocean floor structures, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur in patterns. Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in bands that are often along the boundaries between continents and oceans. Major mountain chains form inside continents or near their edges. Maps can help locate the different land and water features of Earth.