10th Grade Earth Sciences Unit Plans

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This product includes vocabulary, notes, and review for students that are learning about volcanoes.

Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: volcanoes, magma, crater, ash cloud, magma chamber, layers of ash, vent, lava flow, active volcanoes, extinct volcanoes, dormant volcanoes, Earth's crust, tectonic plates, lithosphere, divergent boundaries, transform boundaries, convergent boundaries, Mount St. Helens, and Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI).

This product on volcanoes covers what a mountain is, how magma comes up to the surface which causes volcanoes to form and erupt, explosive volcanic eruptions compared to effusive volcanic eruptions, students will look at a diagram of a volcano and will label the parts of the volcano using the key, students will learn where volcanoes are found and the three different types of volcanoes - active, extinct, and dormant. Where magma volcanoes form, how pieces of the Earth's surface move slowly, what is the lithosphere and where it is located, where tectonic plates are located in the structure of the Earth, tectonic plates and the three boundaries and how they are different from one another - divergent, transform, and convergent boundaries, students will also learn about Mount St. Helens eruption on May 18th, 1980, students will also learn safety tips and how to prepare for a volcanic eruption, students will analyze two charts: how volcanoes are measured using the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) and some volcanic eruptions in the 21st century, and students will choose a volcano to research and will answer questions after conducting research about a volcano in the packet provided at the end of the product.

Throughout the product, students will answer comprehension questions, true/false questions, multiple choice questions, will label diagrams to ensure comprehension as they are learning about volcanoes.

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Earthquakes Adapted Notes and Review

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This product includes vocabulary, notes, and review for students that are learning about earthquakes.

Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: earthquakes, temblors, Earth's crust, normal fault, reverse fault, strike-slip fault, layers of earth, seismographs, and Richter magnitude and earthquake effects.

This product on earthquakes covers how Earth's surface changes, the structure of the Earth and how earthquakes happen due to changes/movements in the crust, three different faults - normal, reverse, and strike-slip faults, how the Earth's crust moves, measuring earthquakes with seismographs, how earthquakes strengths are reported, the Richter magnitude scale that shows the effects of earthquakes, a chart showing the strongest earthquakes of the 20th and 21st century and questions are asked based on data from those charts, and students will research one of the earthquakes and locate information about it in the library or on the computer. Throughout the packet, comprehension questions are asked based on the notes to ensure student comprehension and a few multiple choice questions are also asked in this product that relate with earthquakes.

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