1. What is the water table? What conditions could cause it to rise and fall?
2. What is a fault and what geologic activities normally occur there?
3. Compare/Contrast the Continental Crust with the Oceanic Crust.
4. Distinguish between a convergent, divergent and transform plate boundaries.
5. Compare/Contrast seismic P-waves with seismic S-waves.
6. Discuss the agents of weathering and erosion.
7. Compare/Contrast the layers of the earth.
8. Distinguish various landforms using diagrams and illustrations.
9. Discuss the rock cycle and how each type of rock forms.
10. Discuss erratic's and other evidence of past glaciation.
11. Discuss glacial retreat and some of the possible causes.
12. Describe the young earth views of Ussher.
13. Describe the old earth views of Hutton.
14. Debate the climate change issue.
Skills and Hands-On
Using your reference tables to determine the characteristics of a mineral.
Reading basic topographic maps.
Using your reference table to determine fault activity at plate boundaries.
Using your reference tables to determine temperatures and densities of earth's layers.
Using your reference tables to discuss Earth's natural history.
Finding latitude and longitude on a basic map.
Using a geologic map to sequence past events.
Determine the velocity of a wave(distance/time).