We competed and marked in class the questions from page 422 on fossils. We continued our notes for topic 9 and discussed the half-life of materials used to date rock and fossil evidence.
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We discussed our fossil pretest and examined a real fossil to research its age and the type of organism it came from.
We completed an activity identifying mountain types and handed in page 411 #1-4. Students worked on the review for chapter 7 and the 4-7 wrap up. Page 416 #1-6 and page 417 #1-6 are due for Thursday.
We corrected our volcano and earthquake response questions from Thursday and worked on page 411 #1-4 to be handed in tomorrow. We completed our notes on the various types of mountains and began response work for topic 7.
We completed our topic 4-5 quiz and finished mapping earthquakes and volcanoes before completing the review questions on the back of our maps.
We reviewed for our quiz on topics 4-5 tomorrow and viewed a film about the Earth's crust to reinforce what we have learned about earthquakes and plate tectonics. Students used longitude and latitude to plot earthquakes and volcanoes.
We corrected the locating Epicentres activity questions from yesterday and began working on page 405 #1-6. These questions are due to be handed in on Thursday. There will be a short quiz on topics 4-5 on Thursday as well.
We completed our locating epicentres activity and the notes for rock movement in earthquakes. There will be a short Earthquake and plate techtonics quiz on Thursday.
We discussed primary, secondary, and surface waves produced by earthquakes and began our investigation into triangulation to locate the epicentre of these events.
We completed our notes for topic 4 and reviewed the main concepts to support the completion of the topic 4 review sheet that is due tomorrow. We began our examination of earthquakes in the beginning of topic 5 with some brief notes on the Richter scale.
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