Sunday, December 9, 2012

Week of Dec. 10th
The Earth at Night
 Our Week
Monday:   1.  Check and go over Radiometric Dating Lab 
 2.  Complete p. 117 1-12 - due Tuesday  3.  Fossil Explore due Tuesday

Tuesday:  1.  Check and go over p. 117  2.  Fossil Explore discussion  3.  Intro. new topic - "Weathering" 4.  Explore interactive site - link is below - complete answer sheet as you work through the site - due Thursday


Wednesday: 1.  Quiz on Radiometric Dating 2.  p. 19-26; 1-3, 5-9, 11-12, and 14-16 - due Friday
3.  Use the link below to observe images of how weathering and erosion change the Earth - write an inference about each picture after p. 41 in your workbooks - due Thursday

Radiometric Dating Quiz 


Thursday:  1.  "Erosion and Deposition by Water"  - p. 29-40; 1- 2, 5-6, 11-13, 14-16, 19-20, and 24-27 - due Monday

Friday:  1.  Weathering and Erosion Lab due Tuesday

Question of the Week

Pictured above is an example of erosion in our very own Anderson Township!  What exactly happened here?



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8 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 12, 2012 at 4:42 PM

    Large amounts of water were absorbed into the earth and the soaked earth collapsed due to the major change in weight. This caused what is known as a sinkhole.

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  2. Ben GothardDecember 17, 2012 at 3:23 PM

    The sinkhole is caused by water collapsing the ground making the ground sink.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 18, 2012 at 9:52 AM

    The rock next to the road was unstable, so when there was finally too much weight on the rock, a sinkhole was caused. Basically, the rock gave way, and it all collapsed into a big pile of debris.

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 7:49 AM

    The sinkhole was caused by large amounts of water in an area where the soil is loose. The unstable ground was too weak to hold up under the pressure of the water, so it collapsed, causing the sinkhole.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 10:55 AM

    This was caused by lots of water in loose soil,the ground above was weak and collapsed causeing a hole.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 10:56 AM

    The sinkhole was caused by the rain and years and years of water erosion, on that specific day the ground and soil was especially weak causing the ground, rock and soil to give way.

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2013 at 5:06 PM

    The example of erosion is a sinkhole and it was caused from the large amounts of rain we were having. The ground was not stable enough to hold the large amount of rain so it collapsed, forming a sinkhole.

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2013 at 7:39 AM

    The ground below the parking lot sank and collapsed because water had eroded
    every thing under the hole.

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