Friday, January 24, 2020

Unit 5: Earth's History



See below for the answers to the workbook questions we started in class.

1. A WHOLE WEBSITE dedicated to Earth's History, including videos.
2. An 8-minute overview of Earth's History, including vocabulary.
3. Pages 8 & 9 of the ESRT
4. Video tutorial for page 8
5. Video tutorial for page 9
6. Flash Cards for Earth's History unit
7. Review of Relative and Absolute Dating
8. REVIEW EXAM WITH INTERACTIVE ANSWER KEY




  Chapter 6 Review (pages 163-169 workbook)
1. 2   2. 4   3. 3   4. 1   5. 2   6. 4   7. 3   8. 2   9. 1   10. 4   11. 4   12. 3   13. 4   14. 3   15. 1   16. 3   17. 2   18. 3/4?   19. 4   20. 3   21. 2    22.  2    23. 3    24. 1    25. 2  

26. Arrow points down on the right and up on the left.
27. earthquake
28. siltstone, limestone, granite, shale, vesicular basalt, sandstone
29. Permian (between 260-279 mya)           30. metamorphic, hornfels
31.The crystals in the v. basalt would be smaller.           32. erosion
33. It formed in a horizontal layer on top of shale.

34. sedimentary     35. 0 degrees (it's on the equator)           36. 10 times larger      
37. 58 degrees north, 95 degrees west

38. Inference 1: the intrusion cuts through the shale, so the shale had to be there first
Inference 2: the shale is under the sandstone
Inference 3: the limestone and granite are folded, eroded, and have a separate intrusion that doesn't cut through the shale
Inference 4: the limestone was metamorphosed by the granite intrusion, so the limestone must have been there before the granite intrusion

39. E, C, F, A, D, E            40. ordovician            41. deposition, folding, erosion, deposition, erosion
42. 395mya             43. Elliptocephala            44. Paleozoic            45. Alleghenian orogeny
46. g            47. Corals            48. 444-488mya             49. Coelophysis - Late triassic- just northwest of the western tip of Long Island
50. 542/4600=12% of the timeline.  The arrow should be very close to the arrow representing "The Present"


Up next: Unit 7: The Dynamic Atmosphere
Preview one of the labs here.

Ms. Moore

Ms. Moore