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Earth Science Text Book PDF
2019 CP Earth Sci Syllabus
How do do your weekly Current Event
Assignments
Hidden Life Assignment
Quizzes
Chp 2.1-2.3 Quiz
Chp 30 Quiz
Chp 29 Quiz CP Earth
Chp 1 Quiz CP Earth
Chp 26.1 Online quiz
Chp 12.1 and 12.2 quiz 2018
Chp 10.1 and 10.2 quiz 2018
Chp 1.1 Quiz
Chp 1.1 and 1.2 Quiz
Chp 2 Quiz ES 2017
Chp 6 Rocks ppt pdf
Period 6 Chp 4 Quiz
Period 6 Chp 2 quiz
Chp 26.2 quiz Pd 5
Chp 26.2 quiz Pd 6
Chp 10.3 Online Quiz
Chp 27.1 quiz Period 5
Chp 27.1 quiz Period 6
Chp 27.2 ppt for notes
CFU 26.2 Period 6
Chp 26.2 CFU
Chp 10.1-10.2 Online Quiz
Resource Quiz 1
Chp 7.1-7.2 Quiz 1/12
10.2 ppt quiz
GF 2. Lat Long quiz
Chp 6 Quiz 1/18/18
Templates and Projects
Chp 10 Plate Boundary Animation Template-Make a copy in your drive before editing
GF 1. Nitrogen cycle assignment
Chp 3 Lat Long 2 activity
Chp 3 Lat Long 2 activity alternate
Chp 3 Making Measurements on Maps
Mineral Project Directions
40 common minerals and their uses
Mineral Project Template
A Guide to identifying minerals
Instructional Tips
Expectations form
Tips to giving a good presentation.
Chp 6 rock lab introduction
Chp 6 part 1 Rocks
Chp 6 part 2 Rocks
What you need to know about atoms/elements.
All about Topo maps (watch!)
Resource Project Registration
Doing research on Westfall's e-reader for Resource Project
Lesson Plan template
Fractional Scale Video
Chp 1 and 2.1 ppt quiz to study from
Posted Exam Questions
Chp 11/12 Essay Questions
Chp 10 Essay Questions for Tues Exam
Chp 2 practice test solutions
Tutorial Videos
What is science (YT)
What is science II (YT)
What is science according to Monty Python? (YT)
Bowens's Reaction Series
Nitrogen Cycle (YT)
Crash Course Nitrogen/Phosphorus Cycle
Earth Science Week 2015
Look at the end of the description for keywords to help with research projects
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Geology/Paleontology Links Below
1. California Science Standards
2. Museum of Paleontology
3. Recent Earthquakes
4. Volcanoes
5. Science Picture of the Day
6. Other ES Links
7. Geoblog
8. ES Picture Bank
9. Coelocanth, Living Fossil!
10. Powers of Ten
Take a trip from an atom to outside our Galaxy.
11a. Planning for an earthquake
Are you prepared if an earthquake was to hit Sonora?
11b. Earthquake preparedness site 2
11c. Earthquake preparedness site 3
12. Some questions about earthquakes answered
13. Deepest Hole in the World
14. About radioactive decay
15. Fossil Fish in Wyoming
16. Jellyfish
17. The Skeptical Teacher
Interesting discussions on a variety of scientific topics.
18. Periodic Table Videos
19. Interactive Periodic Table
20. Landslide in Italy
Mass wasting is the movement of sediments to lower places due to gravity. This is one of the best live examples I've seen!
21. When is a dinosaur a dinosaur?
22. All about Pterosaurs!
23. Minerals on Mars
Some minerals on Mars required liquid water, which may have been around during its early years.
24. Focault's Pendulum Webcam
25. Water Crisis Info from Mrs. McVey's 5th graders!
26. Convergent, Divergent, or Transform?
This site gives a very detailed description of the dynamics of plate motion over the entire Earth.
27. Plate Tectonic Animations
28. Plate Tectonic Animations 2
29. Plate movement in the future
30. 2011 Japanese EQ You Tube
31. Birds of Paradise
What happens when plate tectonics causes mountains to form and separates continents? New species evolve! Few species get more diverse than Birds of Paradise.
32. Why building design is important in EQ country.
33. Tour of the invisible (TED Talk)
34. Life on Earth website and podcasts
35. Why we need to learn about maps and geography
36. Maps on the West Wing show
37. India sending probe to Mars?
38. How maps are used to tell the story of the Rim Fire
39. What is a conflict mineral?
40. Why curling stones have to be made of special rocks!
41. About our Table Mountain in Sonora
42. Italian Landslide! Could have the damage been prevented?
43. Sinabung erupts after 400 years!
44. Ecology- How wolves changed a river
45. See some Gigapans by my good friend Callan Bentley
46. The story of Alfred Wegener (YT)
47. Plate tectonic challenge
48. Tsunami animation
49. Intro to continental drift and plate tectonics (YT)
50. Earth Reveled Series
51. Very cool pendulum waves
52. Plate Boundary Observatory
53. New volcanic island in the Pacific
54. Slithering stones of Death Valley National Park
55. Why would I breath in Ar and Xe? Well, the pros do!
56. Importance of nitrogen fertilizer- Radio Lab, The Bad Show
57. Example of biogeochemical cycles (phosphorus) in action!
58. How to descend into a lava lake!
59. Journey to center of Earth visual
60. How plate tectonics helps create cool animals! (PTs, Madagascar)
61. Could an ocean of water be trapped inside the earth? (podcast, sci fri)
62. Earthquakes- Where the Fault Lies (YT, great video!)
63. Dawn redwood story
64. Power of Japanese EQ and tsunami! (YT)
65. How a seismometer works from Bill Nye.
66. Los Angeles' most EQ proof building! (YT)
67. How to work with Topo maps
68. How much water is on the Earth? (YT)
69. How did we discover sea floor spreading? (YT)
70. What is paleomagnetism? (YT)
71. Maps, and 20 maps that might change how you look at the world (YT)
72. Amazing chemical reactions! (see how important valence is?)