intro

September 7th Hand in your Rock Cartoon if you

didn’t finish it yesterday

Check-In

Do you have the following completed:

1. Test 2. Cartoon3. Tier 3 4. Parent letter

GRADES • Midterms go home Friday

• Remember that homework is graded out of 100

• Late work is accepted up until the test

• IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO

TURN IN LATE WORK!

• Front bin=late work

Test #1

Great Job!!!!!

Test Answers4 points each

1. C2. b3. c4. a5. a6. a7. d8. B

9. d10. d11.B12.B13.B14.B15.A16.A

17.D18.B19.C20.A21.D22.C23.Various

answers

Continued…..

24: Intrusive: coarse, Inside, Large Crystals, slow cooling, Granite (or others), MagmaExtrusive: Fine, outside, small crystals, fast cooling, obsidian, lava25. All did great!

Paleontology

1. Outline

□Your new best friend!!!!

□Use this throughout the quarter

Table of Contents

□Unit #3: Unit title: Paleontology□Date: 9/7

□Section: Intro

□Title: Unit Outline

□Page: 1

2. Fossil Project

□ Read it silently

□ Due at end of the unit

□ What questions do you have?

Table of Contents

□ Date: 8/7

□Section: Projects

□Title: Fossil Project

□Page: 2

3. Tiers

□ Look at the tiers □Pick your tiers □Highlight which tiers you are going to choose!

Table of Contents

□ Date: 8/7

□Section: Projects

□Title: Tiers

□Page: 3

Observation, Inference, and Conclusions, oh my!

What is an observation?

What is an inference?

What is a conclusion?

Photograph Activity□Your group will be given a mystery

photograph. Your task is to try to figure out what it is.

□You will be given a list of questions to answer and a sheet to record your group’s ideas.

□You will have 5 minutes to come to a group conclusion about what your photograph is.

□Let the countdown begin!

Photograph 1

Photograph 2

Photograph 3

Photograph 4

Photograph 5

Photograph 6

Scientist/Artifact Activity□Your group will receive a

description of scientists.□I will post photographs of dig

site fossils and artifacts.□Decide what role these

scientists might have at a dig site.

Homework

Tier 1

Table of Contents

□Date: 8/7

□Section: Dating

□ Title: Geologic dating

□ Page: 3,4

Paleontology

The study of past life

1. Important Words!□Paleontologist –

scientist who studies fossils and plants from past life and other recontructed past ecosystems, study traces left behind by animals and piece together the conditions under which fossils were formed.

□Uniformitarianism – the idea that the same geologic processes shaping the Earth today have been at work throughout Earth’s history

Rocks Record Earth History

2. Discovering Earth’s History

Rocks record geological events and changing life forms of the past.

We have learned that Earth is much older than anyone had previously imagined and that its surface and interior have been changed by the same geological processes that continue today.

There are two main ways to determine how old a rock or fossil is:

3. How old is it??

Relative dating Absolute dating

4. Relative vs. Absolute DatingI. Relative dating – determining

whether an object or event is older or younger than other objects or eventsA. Superposition

1. Older rocks are under newer rock

2. Can only determine relative time

B. Geologic column is an ideal sequence of rock layers that contains all the known fossils and rock formations on Earth arranged from oldest to youngest.

II. Absolute Dating – the process of establishing the age of an object by determining the number of years it has existed.

A. Radioactive decay – the process in which a radioactive isotope tends to break down into a stable isotope of the same element.