Inv. 3 & 4 I-Check Review

Match the rock type with the materials that make it up!

Groups:

(a) Shale

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(b) Limestone

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(c) Sandstone

• Calcium

• Mud

• Dirt

• Carbon

• Sand Particles

​ ​ (a)   is the idea that the Earth is ​ (b)   all the time, ​ (c)  

• Uniformitarianism
• Unchanging
• Changing
• In the same way.
• In different ways

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Box, and draw lines between the index fossils in these three canyons.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Match the following vocabulary with their definition1

• The setting down of eroded rock

• Fossil

• Earth is always changing the same way

• Deposition

• The fossil we use to age rocks

• Period, Epoch, Era

• Ways we measure Earth's age

• Index Fossil

• Petrified remains of plants and animals

• Uniformitarianism

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

We organize Epochs, Eras and Periods based on...

• Which plants and animals lived during which Periods, Eras and Epochs

• The people who discovered the epochs, eras and periods

• How thick the rock layers in the Grand Canyon are

• How many layers of rock there are in a given place.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Uniformitarianism is the idea that the Earth's Geosphere is...

• Always changing, in different ways

• Never Changing

• Changing only when something big happens

• Always Changing, in the same way

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Why would it be true to say that new rocks are being formed today, as we speak?

Answer in at least 3 sentences.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Answer this prompt in at least 3 sentences.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What type of rock would be created by mud and dirt being pressed down over time?

• Limestone

• Sandstone

• Shale

• Fossils

Check all the elements that would result in sediment at the bottom of a river becoming rock.

• Erosion

• Weathering

• Deposition

• Melting

• Hardening