Earth Science                                    Week of September 17, 2007

What is the Ocean like?

How does Earth change?

What is Inside the Earth?

Review what you know

 

·        Map Skills to identify the Oceans of the World

·        Experiments:

1.     How do different materials settle into layers?

2.     How can we separate sand, salt, and water?

3.     How does water wear away the earth?

4.     Evaporation of Salt

 

Using the Scientific Method:  observation

                                             hypothesis

                                             prediction

                                             experiment

 

Vocabulary

 

crust                     mantle                  outer core             inner core             plain

 

seismic waves       shock waves         theory                   plateau

 

Vocabulary to be completed in class on Friday using hard bound text:

 

relief map             map scale             map legend           equator

 

latitude                 prime meridian     longitude              projection

 

GPS                      topography          elevation               slope

 

contour interval    remote sensing     sensor

 

Workbook Homework Assignments:  Pages 10, 13, 17 complete by Friday

 

Complete in class on Friday: Pages 18 & 19   TEST ON MONDAY