The earth's internal energy

November Quiz - Thursday December 1st 2011

Grading System:
1. Skill - Creativity (Pictionary, Role play, Blog)
         - Autonomy  (Own contribution)
         - Critical thinking (own opinion)
         - Student's Quiz (see teacher's blog)
2. Quiz of Unit
3. Project - Blog
4. Class participation / Discipline
5. TE (on paper)
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Student's Quiz (see example)
-  Multiple Choice
-  True / False
-  Short answer
-  Gap Filling
-  Pictionary

 Objectives :

- to explain how the lithosphere is formed - to explain how the plates move and what consequences these movements have - to describe what happens on the boundaries between plates - to relate the formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks with the internal dynamics of the earth Overview:  1. Evidence of the earth's internal energy. 2. Lithospheric plates 3. What happens at the edges of the plates ? 4. The earth's internal energy and rocks As this unit is a review of previous lessons, students have to get deeper into the subject and present the following projects :)  Example / Case study / Tungurahua - Ecuador  Watch mother nature right here in Ecuador :)   BBC news on Tungurahua eruption in 2010    Click here to see the current stand on active volcanoes Plannification and methodology:  Create pictionary quizzes, crosswords, quizzes, experiments. Provide links with new information you have discovered by yourself. Week 1: 07.11.-11.11.2011 Project 1:   How does a volcano work ? How does it evolve ?                     Project 2:   How does a earthquake works ? How does it evolve ?  Students make a presentation with PPP :) Week 2:  14.11.-18.11.2011 Project 3:   What is a continental drift ? Project 4:   What is a lithospheric plate ? Teacher's questions: Students have to upload the questions and put their own examples. (pictures, links...) 1. What is a synonym of lithospheric plates ? 2. What are the three kinds of lithospheric pates ? 3. Match the principal LP (p. 129)with the three kinds of LP. 4. What is special about the continental plates ? 5. Where is the boundary of the S.A. and African Plates ? 6. What are the types of boundary between plates ? (p.130) 7. What is a Rift Valley ? 8. What will happen to California eventually and why ? (p.131) 9. How were the Himalayas formed ? 10. How is a trench formed ? Week 3:  21.11-25.11.2011 Project 5:   Explain the rock cycle. You may use videos, pictures, scientists, university students... The Rockcycle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4XAOY-VEEI&feature=related Where does the rock cycle start? The mantle is made out of .... ? How thick is the earth's crust ? Why is the earth's crust solid ? What can you say about the structure of igneous rocks  ? Remember what a cristal was ? (page 11) What happens when a rock cools very quickly ?  Physical weathering http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-AcasoiFEo&feature=related Daytime - It is raining. What happens with the cracks of the rocks? Nightime - It is freezing. What happens with the rocks? Geology erosion and transportation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDUpwM8brgU&feature=related Why is he painting the rocks? Describe their experiment? What does he mean by "20 m in a single year"? What could happen to piece of land they are standing on in a couple of month? What are the results? Where do the rocks come from? What happend to the big stones? What happened to the little stones? What also gets moved due to the forces of water? Sedimentary Rock formation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Df4CtlZ0AQ&feature=related Metamorphic Rock formation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggIpPHIeJu4&feature=related Properties of rock types http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnBCPdc39U Summary of Rock Cycle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbtVtTSVZSc&feature=related The Rock Cycle (best video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihfKNRdlE2E&feature=related For more detailed info about magma, igneous rocks, volcanoes and  plutons click here (illustrated) Week 4:   28.11.-02.12.2011 Quiz preparation Field trip - Cotopaxi - With a geologist (rock cycle) - Who has some contacts ? http://www.geopuce.com/autores

The effect of water on land relief

Objectives:

To identify some of the fundamental changes in the land relief of the planet due to the action of water and ice.
To explain how erosion, transport and sedimentation is produced in riveres and seas.
To recognise some of the forms of land relief associated with the geological action of water and ice.
To explain what sedimentary rocks are and how they are formed.



For Monday October 10th 2011
Create your own Pictonary of geological terms such as:

gravity, external energy, internal energy, formation of clouds, rain, rivers, waterfalls, sea, torrents and glaciers


Here is one example:

Projects:

How were the Galapagos Islands formed?

Click here to find out. 
Share this blog 




 

What is that place called ?
Do you know how it was formed ?



Inform yourself here :)
Click here to access a geologic dictionary
What is tuff ?




Erosion and river formation. (Torrent?)
Check out another very explicative video.

Evaluation (out of 20)
Due to October 31st

Page 113-119

Answer the questions and give own examples. (if you can from Ecuador) you can use pictures, graphs or videos and of course your own writing. For definitions you can consult the onelook dictionary.

1. What is the difference between a torrent and a river?

2. Check out our trip to "The real middle of the world". Where can you find a "Gully" ?
Click here to find out.

3. What is the difference between rainwater and a torrent?

4. What is a glacier? How is it formed? Why does it form a U shaped valley?

Click here to find out.

5.Does the mountain look familiar to you? How did the rocks get there?

6.Have you ever wondered where those big stones come from ?

Click here to find out.

7.Why do rivers form V-shaped and Glaciars U-shaped valleys?

8.   How are cliffes formed?
9.   How are beaches formed?
10. How are waterfalls formed?
11. How are rivers formed?
12. Which is the biggest river of Ecuador ?
13. What section of the river produces the most erosion?
14. What can you say about Glaciar Erosion?

Click here to see the video.


15. What can you say about costal erosion?

Click here to see the video

Project:
Now summarize what you have learned.
Design your own blog with videos, pictures, links, quizzes 
crossword puzzles, and power point presentations.

Check - Monday, October 31st

The changing surface of the earth and its causes

1. Landscape changes

Task 1: 

What do you think earth has been looked like 500 mio years ago ? 

How were the continents formed ?

How will earth be like in a 100 mio years from now ?

Those changes are called abrupt changes. (True/False)

Click here to find out the answers.

Task 2: 

What type of agent has changed landscape around 65.5 mio years ago ?
This change is called abrupt change. (True/False)

What type of agent has changed landscape from around 3 mio-2 mio years ago ?
This change is called slow change. (True/False) If you take a closer look to the Holocene Epoch (11,400 years ago to today), what other agent is having a great deal of influence on Landscape Change ?

Check out this timeline to find the answers.
Here is another time line from BBC Channel.

Task 3:                                                                                                                                   




What other examples can you find for abrupt changes ?
Can you name one example of your own country?



Click here to find the answer.
Click here to see some evidence of landscape changes.

Task 4:                                                                                                                 
Landscape changes, which occure at regular speed over a long period of time, are called ?

P.............................Changes

These kind of changes are due to the action of the a....................... and the h........................ on the planet.
The w........., continental w...................., the s............., i..........of g...........all act as agent of change, t............ off rocky material from one area and d....................... them in another. 


Task 5:                                                                                                                           
Describe the picture:

What happens at the source ?
What happens at the river valleys ?
What happens at the river bank ?

Click here to find out the three processes.







Task 6:                                                                                                                              

What is the difference between Erosion and Weathering ?

Click here to find out.
Click here to see a movie about weathering, erosion and deposition
After watching the video name the 4 agents fo erosion.

Task7:                                                                                                          

How do you think mountains have formed ? Is there any relation to what you see in the picture ?


Click here to find out.

Watch the early earth and plate tetonics













Watch Plate Tectonic Evidence Movement