Unit+2+Earth's+Features+and+Resources

=**What we aim to learn about the** Earth's Features and Resources: =

__**EROSION:**__
 * 1) Identify the processes of physical weathering that break down rocks at Earth's surface
 * 2) Distinguish between weathering and erosion
 * __SOILS:__**
 * 1) Compare soil samples by sorting them according to properties
 * 2) Conduct simple tests to identify the three basic components of soil
 * 3) Test soils and compare/ contrast properties
 * 4) Explain and give examples of ways in which soil is formed
 * __ROCKS AND MINERALS:__**
 * 1) Describe, compare, and sort rocks, soils, and minerals by similar or different physical properties
 * 2) Use the physical properites of hardness, color, luster, and reaction to vinegar, to identify common minerals.
 * __USES OF EARTH'S MATERIALS:__**
 * 1) __I__dentify different uses of Earth's materials based on their properties
 * 2) Identify Earth's materials that are used as fuel, and other ways that humans use these materials to meet needs and wants
 * 3) Determine and support explanations of the uses of Earth's materials
 * __FOSSILS__**:
 * 1) Identify types of fossils
 * 2) Identify features of fossils that can be used to compare them to living organisms that are familiar
 * 3) Explain how fossils can be used to make inferences about past life, climate, geology, and environments
 * 4) Cite two scientific explanations for the distinction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric organisms.


 * Essential Questions:**
 * 1) How do scientists learn/ know?
 * 2) Why is it important to learn about how our earth changes?
 * 3) Will the physical earth we live in today be the same earth we live in _ years?

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