Geology 12

Welcome to Geology 12!

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Day-By-Day:

The following is a listing of what we will do/have done. Scroll down to the date in question and you will find the materials you need.

Date Course Material References
T Jan 30 Minerals and Rocks

W 31
Th Feb 1
F 2
  • Mineral Lab
  • Click here: Quiz hints for quiz next class
M Feb 5
  • Chemistry and Minerals Quiz /15
  • Finish Mineral Lab
The World's 10 Most Deadly Minerals
T 6
W 7
  • go over lab
  • Follow-up: pg 19-21 in Handouts booklet
  • Practice for Quiz:
    • Finish White Workbook up to #47 – good mineral review (esp #23 to 47)  🙂
    • Quizlet – search for Mineral Identification quizzes
    • Etc
Th 8
  • Quiz – pass the mineral pictures
  • Start Igneous Rocks notes
  • bring winter gloves tomorrow
F 9
  • Meet in Room 203 (science wing)
  • Combining Minerals Lab – bring winter gloves
  • Ch 3 notes, to end of section B
  • Workbook #51, 53, 56
M Feb 12
  • Ch 3 notes up to end of E Pg 24-26
  • Igneous Lab pg 28-29
  • Ig Lab Summary Qs pg 29
  • Review for quiz (next class)
T 13
  • Rock Cycle & Bowen’s Quiz     /10
  • Finish/go over Igneous lab,
  • Summary Qs pg 29
  • Finish Ch 3 notes Pg 26-27
  • Igneous and Volcanic Rock Features
  • Assign White Workbook pg 19 #48 – 57 and 59
W 14 Happy Valentine’s Day!
  • Igneous rock id activity
  • Extra review:
  • Create a mind map of all the Igneous material (Ch3) for use on the quiz tomorrow. You will also be given a pink data booklet to use.
Th and F Feb 15 and 16
T Feb 20 Volcanoes

W 21
Th 22
  • Notes: volcano predictors, sills vs lava flows, lava vs magma (fill in white workbook # 61, 63, 64)
  • Intrusive Features video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KKA0yOi6xQ
  • Test Overview
  • Finish orange handouts booklet (pages 36-44)
  • Finish workbook (pages 1-16, all questions)
M Feb 26
T 27
  • Test Ch 1-4 Minerals, Igneous, Volcanoes
  • White Workbook is also due
W 28 Weathering and Erosion

  • Notes W and E
  • Purple Handouts booklet pg 1-2 (using notes and internet)
  • White Workbook #1-3, 6-14
Th 29
  • Go over W&E worksheets
  • Mass Wasting
  • Purple Handouts pg 4-7
F Mar 1
  • Go over Mass Wasting worksheets
  • Weathering on Quizizz.com (Ms. Della will host a live game…)
  • White Workbook: all questions pages 1-4
landslide - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help
M Mar 4
T 5 What Is A Stream In Geography? - WorldAtlas
W 6
    • Lion’s Park
      • Meet in classroom – we’ll walk over together, if the weather allows.
      • Walking Scavenger Hunt – if you are absent, please do this assignment
W 6
  • Start Ground Water notes
  • Porosity/Permeability demo (shale, sandstone, water, scale)
  • Finish Ground Water notes
  • Purple pg 12-17
Th 7 Spring water Images, Stock Photos & Vectors | Shutterstock
F 8
  • Streams and Ground Water Quiz   /10 (open notes)
  • Glaciers: pg 18 Notes to end of Moraines
  • White: pg 9 #1 erosional part, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18
  • Purple: pg 22 # 1-5, 8-10, pg 23 # 1-14, 17-22
M Mar 11
  • Glaciers: Notes to end of pg 20
  • Purple: pg 22 to 28 – complete any not finished yet
T 12 Life in the deep freeze – the revolution that changed our view of glaciers forever
W 13
  • Go over pg 28 (crossword) in purple booklet
  • Glaciers Quiz /10
  • Start Sed notes Pg 29 in purple handouts
  • Sedimentary Lab
Th 14
  • Finish lab
  • Finish Sedimentary Rocks Notes
  •  Review
    • Test overview
    • Sedimentary Rocks worksheet in handouts booklet (pg 33-34)
    • White workbook
F 15
Happy Spring Break!
T Apr 2
  • Group review activity
  • Ensure your white workbooks are completed for handing in tomorrow
Exfoliation in Coquihalla Valley - EPOD - a service of USRA
W 3
  • Surface Processes test      /65
  • Hand in White Workbook
Geologic Time
Th 4
  • Relative Dating Notes
  • Green Handouts Book Pg 1-4,
F 5
M Apr 8 Tyrannosaurus vs Triceratops - DINOSAURS - YouTube
T 9
  • Notes: Buried Lava Flow vs Sill
  • White Workbook pg 1-4 (hand out today) (See KEY on first day of this unit)
  • Relative Dating Quiz /16
W 10
  • Radiometric Dating notes and lab (pg 7-9 green)
Th 11
  • Question: How do you think scientists find out the absolute age of a sedimentary layer?
  • Go over lab (pg 7-9 green)
  • Finish notes
  • More practice questions (pg 8 & 10 green)
  • Relative time and Absolute Time WS (pg 11-12 green)
  • Practice Macaroni Quiz (pg 13 green)
F 12
  • Macaroni quiz   /5
  • Geologic timescale
  • Notes on rest of chapter (pg 14-15 green)
  • White workbook pg 5-8
M Apr 15
  • Timeline on a String
  • Geologic Timescale Activity (adding machine tape) (green pg 16)
History of the geologic time scale - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
T 16
W 17 Fossils

  • Put events into pink data booklet pg 4
  • Notes: Relative dating with fossils
  • Work on White Workbook (do what you can from pg 1-16)
Th 18
  • demo Mold & Cast
  • Do IEH Lab Activity to learn fossils (find all phyla names, we’ll go over these before you proceed)
M April 22
  • Go over IEH Lab Activity
  • Put phyla names, etc onto pg 5 pink data booklet
  • Look at pg 3 in pink data booklet
  • Practice Quiz (quiz in couple days)
  • Real Fossils Activity (pg 25 green workbook, in class activity using real fossils, no answer key available)
T 23
  • Practice Quiz (fossils and read out events)
  • Time to work on workbooks – can do white pages 1-16 (see key at beginning of unit)
  • (omit for now pg 10 #7, pg 11 #5, pg 12 #9 10, pg 13 #14)
  • Review for quiz
When Trilobites Ruled the World - The New York Times
W 24
Th 25
  • Faunal Succession/Correlation Exercise (green pg26-28)
  • Sed environments/which way is up worksheet (green pg 30)
  • Review
F 26
  • Review page (on OneNote)
  • Fossils (PP) and Fossil ID Review Activity (PP)
  • TGT
  • Review on own or with a partner
M Apr 29
  • Geologic Time Test /55
Virtual Collection - Digital Atlas of Ancient Life
Internal Processes Scientist escaping End of the Earth - sheet lava overflowing from lava channel, Tolbachik 2013 [OC][1040x692] : r/pics
T Apr 30
W May 1
  • Try This: Calculate the rate of plate motion, in cm/y, if a plate has moved 300 km in 10 million years. (Show work, answer is 3 cm/y)
  • Continue Ch 9 notes (Part B, including subduction zone)
  • Practice:
    • Orange Handouts booklet pg 1-6 (mostly multiple choice)
    • White workbook rest of questions from pg 1-8
Th 2
  • Finish Ch 9 notes (Part C)
  • Movie: Where Terranes Collide (25 min; orange booklet pg 9-10)
  • Homework: Local Plate Tectonics (pg 11 orange booklet)
M May 6
  • Questions on Local Plate Tectonics? Finish and hand in
  • Go over Orange booklet pg 1-6
  • Discuss Geology of BC (Orange pg 7-8, referring to video yesterday)
  • Make a mind map of Plate Tectonics as a way to study for the quiz next class (includes subduction zone and rate calculation, plus other…)
  • Review Video (12:43 min)
  • Finish off pages 1-8 in White Workbook

Plate tectonics - Wikipedia

T 7
  • Quiz on Plate Tectonics   /10
  • Ch 10 notes: Earthquakes (pg 12-13 orange (inc Surface Waves))
  • Start pages 9-14 in White Workbook #1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 26, 30
W 8
  • Chapter 10 notes (finish): Earthquakes (orange pg 13-15)
  • Earthquakes word search with clues (orange pg 20)
  • Continue White Workbook pg 9-14
Th 9
  • Go over homework
  • Detailed description of how to locate an earthquake
  • Epicentre Home Assignment (Orange pg 16-19)
  • Work on White Workbook (finish pages 1-14)
Why was the earthquake in Nepal such a devastating event? | Nepal | The Guardian
F 10
  • Quick Quiz on Earthquakes   /5
  • Layers of the Earth Diagram (pg 23)
  • Walk to the Centre of the Earth!
  • Ch 11 Notes
  • Ch 11 Fill in the Blank (pg 25-26)
M May 13
  • Beginning Activity: List 5 ways we have learned details about the centre of the Earth
  • Alternate way to organized layers of Earth in a diagram
  • Start “The Core” (pg 21-22 orange booklet)
Earth layers Images, Stock Photos & Vectors | Shutterstock
T 14
  • Finish “The Core”
  • White workbook (finish pages 1-14 and 18-20)
W 15
  • Finish The Core
  • Go over: Orange pg 21-22 (The Core WS), pg 25-26 (Earth’s Interior WS)
  • Study for 5 mark quiz on Earth’s Interior
  • Quiz in last 5-10 minutes of class.
Th 16
  • Beginning Activity: Draw and label a rift and subduction zone area
  • Strike Dip Notes and Activity
  • Notes on Faults
  • Work on Workbook (start pg 21 #1-17, omit 5 for now)
F 17
  • Notes: Folds, Isostacy
  • Playdough activity  (orange pg 30-31)
  • White Workbook (pg 15-17 Isostacy, and pg 21 to 33)
T May 21
  • Go over Pladough activity, with playdough
  • Picture Mix-up! (orange pg 32)
  • Structural Geology 3-D Block Diagrams
  • Practice block diagram
  • For each model, complete cross-sections, draw strike/dip etc on map, as directed, and answer the following questions on the back of said model:
    • Model 1: # 1
    • Model 2: # 3
    • Model 3: # 6, 7
    • Model 4: # 10
    • Model 5: # 14
    • Model 6: # 16, 17, 18, 19
    • Note: simple rules on pg 212 of pdf
  • Remember:
    • Strike is always parallel to the lines on the map
    • Dip points in the direction the layers are tilting underground
W 22
  • Practice block diagram
  • Continue Structural Geology lab
Th 23
  • Practice block diagram
  • Finish Structural Geology Lab
  • Do worksheet (orange pg 35-36)
  • Work on white workbook
  • Start a REFERENCE SHEET for the test
    • Put your name on it in ink!
    • Must be hand written (not typed), by you.
    • 8.5 by 11 paper, one side only
F 24
  • Start Review
  • Test overview
  • Processes and plate boundaries (pg 37)
  • Plate movement calculation (pg 38)
M May 27
T 28
  • Continue Review Package
  • Continue one-sided, 8.5×11, reference sheet
  • Teams Games Tournament
  • Bonus Quiz     /5
Volcano facts and types of volcanoes | Live Science
W 29
  • White Workbook due
  • Ch 4, 9-12 test    /65
Metamorphic Rocks, Resources, Planetology
Th 30 METAMORPHIC ROCKS

F 31
  • Quick review of limits, characteristics of meta rocks
  • Minerals in meta rocks
  • Meta lab – name together, then write a history of each rock in set (parent rock, processes underwent in what location…)
  • Workbook pg 38-42 (Crossword, fill-in-blank, texture matching)
M Jun 3
  • FINAL EXAM REVIEW DAY:
  • Old provincial exams are an excellent way to review
  • Create a REFERENCE SHEET:
    • 1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
    • Hand written by you
    • Your name on it in ink
    • Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
T 4
  • Cans Activity (review of Min, Ig, Sed, Meta rocks)
  • Review Minerals and all three rock types (3 more crosswords)
  • Work on Reference Sheet for final exam
    • 1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
    • Hand written by you
    • Your name on it in ink
    • Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
W 5

RESOURCES

  • Notes: geology of BC, important BC resources, types of deposits
  • Video (3 min): Formation of Ore Deposits
  • Workbook section F pg 1-8  at least #1-4, 9-16, and beyond if you can, if we’ve covered it.
Th 6
  • Notes: Fossil Fuels
  • Videos:
  • Workbook page 1-8 (finish off)
F 7

PLANETOLOGY

  • Compare planets of Solar System to Earth
    • in 5 groups
    • use internet to find information (see pg 8a) about your assigned planets (Use NASA sites!)
    • record on chart paper for presentation to class tomorrow
The Inner Planets of Our Solar System - Universe Today
M Jun 10
  • Presentations to class
  • Discuss, create T-chart of inner vs outer planets
  • Solar System PP
T 11
W 12
  • Tectonic Analysis of Planet X143B-M Exercise
Solar System – how it was formed, the sun, planets, Asteroid Belt, Kuiper Belt
Th 13
  • Planet X143B-M Exercise due
  • Meta/Resources/Planetology Test   /30  (OPEN NOTES, all multiple choice)
  • Review (see practice exams to the right)
F 14
  • Classroom structure activity (~45 minutes)
  • Work on Reference Sheet for final exam
    • 1 piece of 8.5 x 11 paper, double-sided
    • Hand written by you
    • Your name on it in ink
    • Remember you will also have the pink data booklet so don’t waste space on the reference sheet with that stuff.
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M Jun 17 to W 19
Th June 20
  • Final Exam
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