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Science grade 8ES Surface Water, Oceans and Glaciers

Science Grade 8ES Surface Water, Oceans and Glaciers

2-4 weeks

The oceans and glaciers of the Earth have a profound effect in shpaing the surface.

What are oceans and how do they affect life on the Earth's surface?

What are glaciers and how do they affect the Earth's surface?

(1) MST1 Students will use mathematical analysis, scientific inquiry, and engineering design, as appropriate, to pose questions, seek answers, and develop solutions.
(1) MST2 Students will access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies.
(1) MST3 Students will understand the concepts of and become proficient with the skills of mathematics, communicate and reason mathematically, and become problem solvers by using appropriate tools and strategies, through the integrated study of number sense and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics and probability.
(1) MST4 Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.
(1) MST5 Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.
(1) MST6 Students will understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning.
(1) MST7 Students will apply the knowledge and thinking skills of mathematics, science, and technology to address real-life problems and make informed decisions.

Using models to analyze coastal erosion and deposition.

Using topographic maps to interpret landscapes formed by glacial activity.

Measuring and comparing the properties of waves.

Creating and using models of ocean currents to analyze their effects.

Abraded

Barrier islands

Beach

Bedrock

Climate

Drumlins

Dune

Dynamic equilibrium

Escarpment

Glacial erosion

Glacial movement

Glacier

Global warming

Ice ages

Kettle

Landscape

Landscape regions

Mass movement

Mid-ocean ridges

Moraine

Mountain

Ocean currents

Outwash

Outwash plain

Plain

Plateaus

Sandbars

Stream drainage pattern

Terrestrial

Time

Trenches

Tsunamis

Uplifting forces

Wave

Wave action

Wavelength

Abyssal plains

Alpine glacier

Aretes

Backwash

Barchan

Baymouth bar

Beach face

Bedrock materials

Berm

Blowouts

Breaks

Cirque

Coast

Coastal blowout dunes

Coastal features

Continental rise

Continental shelf

Continental slope

Creep (soil creep)

Crest

Crevaces

Deflation

Dentritic pattern

Depositional landscape feature

Drainage basin

Drift

End moraine

Environmental change

Environmental factors

Erosional landscapes

Erratic

Esker

Estuary

Faceted

Fetch

Firn (neve)

Fjords

Glacial ages

Glacial erosion

Glacial sediment

Groins

Ground moraine

Guyots

Hanging valleys

Headlands

Hook

Horn

Human activities

Icebergs

Jetties

Kames

Land slide

Landlocked lakes

Landscape development

Landscape observations

Lateral moraine

Laurentide Ice Sheet

Leveling forces

Loess

Longshore drift

Marine terrace

Mass wasting

Mature landscape

Medial moraine

Meltwater

Mudflows

Neve (firn)

Old landscape

Oozes

Parabolic dunes

Pelagic

Peneplane

Physiographic provinces

Radial pattern

Recessional moraine

Rectangular pattern

Rip currents

Rock flour

Saline

Sea arches

Sea cliffs

Seamounts

Slip face (steep slope)

Slumps

Snow line

Soil association

Soil creep

Solar energy

Spit

Stacks

Stratified

Striation

Submarine canyons

Urf

Surface currents

Swash

Terminal moraine

Terriginous

Till

Tombolo

Topography of sea floor

Trellis pattern

Troughs

Turbidities

Turbidity currents

Valley glacier

Ventifacts

Wave height

Wave refraction

Young landscape

Zone of accumulation

Classwork

Unit Activities

Unit Laboratory Experiments

Unit Laboratory Skills

Unit Assessments

Read Works Articles

Bill Nye Videos

Eyewitness Videos

UPCO Physical Setting Earth Science Review

UPCO Exploration in Earth Science Physical Setting

Glencoe Earth Science Text

Glencoe Earth Science Science Notebook

 

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