Earth Science Topics
Earth Science is a semester long course offered to freshmen during
the second semester of each year. This course covers information and
concepts regarding geology, meteorology, and astronomy.
Earth Science Outline
Plate Tectonics
- Students will be able to give evidence to support sea floor spreading, continental drift, and plate tectonics.
- Students will be able to give reasons for the characteristics of the layers of the earth.
- Students will be able to identify and label plate boundaries by their surface features and locations.
- Students will be able to predict lava and volcano types by the volcano's shape, size, and location.
- Using knowledge of seismic waves, students will learn how to read seismographs to predict earthquake epicenters and magnitudes.
- With knowledge of the elastic rebound theory, students will be able to describe how energy is stored in faults.
- With knowledge of plate tectonics, students will be able to
give global examples of plate boundaries, volcano types, and active
earthquake areas.
Astronomy
- Students will be able to explain how the movement and tilt of the
earth with respect to the sun, causes changes in the daily and seasonal
cycles.
- Knowing the position and movements of the sun, earth, and
moon, students will be able to predict phases of the moon and eclipses.
- Students will be able to describe the scientific creation of
the solar system using the current physical properties of the solar
system and other stars as evidence.
- Students will be able to describe the scientific theory behind the creation of the universe and the evidence that supports it.
- Knowing the evolution of a star, students will be able to classify and arrange it's stages from its properties.
- Students will be able to visualize how matter and energy are distributed through the vast distances of the universe.
Meteorology
- Students will be able to categorize the atmosphere into layers using its characteristics.
- Students will be able to predict the strength and direction of wind from changes in pressure.
- Students will apply knowledge of the water cycle to interpret
changes in the phases of water that are dependent on temperature and
pressure.
- Students will be able to predict how climate is affected by the topography of a region or nearby ocean currents.
- Knowing the relationship between air masses in a wave cyclone, students will be able to predict weather along fronts.
- Students will demonstrate knowledge of the causes and effects of severe weather that occurs around the world.
Geology
- Students will categorize minerals and rocks using identifying characteristics.
- Using knowledge of geological processes students can predict how rocks can change over time.
- Students will be able to find the relative and absolute ages of rocks.
- Students will show how gulleying and sheet erosion can be delayed in agricultural and river systems.
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