a. Features of the ocean floor (magnetic patterns,
age, and sea-floor topography) provide evidence for plate tectonics.
b. The principal structures that form at the three
different kinds of plate boundaries
c. How to explain the properties of rocks based
on the physical and chemical conditions in which they formed, including
plate tectonics processes
d. Why and how earthquakes occur, and the scales
used to measure their intensity and magnitude.
e. Two kinds of volcanoes, one with violent eruptions,
producing steep slopes and the other with voluminous lava flows producing
gentle slope
f. *Explanation for the location and properties
of volcanoes that are due to hot spots and those that are due to subduction.
Investigation and Experimentation Standards
1. Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful
questions and conducting careful investigations.
As a basis for understanding this concept, and
to address the content the other four strands, students should develop
their own
questions and perform investigations.
Students will:
a. select and use appropriate tools and technology
(such as computer-linked probes, spread sheets, and graphing calculators)
to perform tests, collect data, analyze relationships,
and display data.
d. formulate explanations using logic and evidence.
f. distinguish between hypothesis and theory as
science terms.
g. recognize the use and limitations of models
and theories as scientific representations of reality.
h. read and interpret topographic and geologic
maps.
i. analyze the locations, sequences, or time intervals
of natural phenomena (e.g., relative ages of rocks, locations of planets
over
time, and succession of species in an ecosystem).
j. recognize the issues of statistical variability
and the need for controlled tests.
k. recognize the cumulative nature of scientific
evidence.
l. analyze situations and solve problems that require
combining and applying concepts from more than one area of science.
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