Lesson 77 of 84 · Earth's History
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌋 Rock RealmTypes of Rocks: Metamorphic (Part 3)
Earth's History.
🎯 Your mission
Learn the rule. Then catch nature using it.
⚡ The twist
Today's mountain was yesterday's ocean floor.
Mind = Blown
🪨 Every grain of sand on every beach used to be a mountain.
Make a hypothesis first
Guess: where will the water go first?
What You'll Learn
The carbon cycle describes how carbon moves through atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and rocks. Human activities like burning fossil fuels add extra carbon to the atmosphere.
Key Words
- precipitation
- weathering
- erosion
Steps
Look at the vocabulary words and write a definition for each in your own words.
Create a timeline of Earth's history on a 5-meter strip of paper. Place major events (first life, dinosaurs, ice ages, humans) at the correct scale.
Note any unexpected results and think about why they happened.
Share your findings with the class or a partner and discuss what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3How do fossils form?
Where you see this in real life
Today's weather, tomorrow's beach, next century's coastline — all this.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Look at the sky for 5 minutes and try to predict tomorrow's weather.
For the dinner table
“What's the slowest change you can think of?”
Next Smart Experiment
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