Download Study Guide Unit Title: Earth`s Surface Tentative Assessment Date

Study Guide
Unit Title: Earth’s Surface
Tentative Assessment Date: __________________
Big Ideas:
 Identify natural resources (metals, fuels, fresh water,
farmland, and forests).
 Classify renewable (fresh water, farmland, forests) and
non-renewable (fuels, metals) resources.
 Describe ways humans are protecting, extending, and
restoring resources (recycle, reuse, reduce, renewal)
 Recognize that paper, metal, glass, and some plastics can
be recycled.
 Describe helpful or harmful effects of humans on the
environment.
 Recognize and describe different types of earth
materials (mineral, rocks, clay, boulder, gravel, sand, and
soil.
 Recognize that rocks are made up of minerals.
 Identify and describe natural causes of change in the
Earth’s surface (erosion, glaciers, volcanoes, landslides,
and earthquakes).
 Identify Earth materials used to construct some common
objects (for example: bricks, buildings, roads, glass).
 Describe how materials taken from the Earth can be used
as fuels for heating and transportation.
Vocabulary:
1) Weathering: The breaking apart or wearing down of
rock (or soil) by wind or water.
2) Erosion: The movement of weathered material (rocks
or soil) on Earth’s surface by wind, water, or glaciers.
3) Rock: An Earth material that made up of two or more
kinds of minerals.
4) Glacier: A large mass of ice made from compacted
snow.
5) Volcano: An opening in the Earth’s surface through
which melted rock, ash, and gases are forced out.
6) Earthquake: The shaking of part of the Earth’s
surface caused by movement deep within the Earth.
*Please encourage nightly review of the vocabulary
words with the flashcards provided. The students
will be assessed the six words as part of the unit
test. The vocabulary portion will be a “fill-in the
blank” assessment.
The test will also include a multiple choice
component. Sample questions are provided below.
People use words like "boulder," "gravel," and "sand" when talking about
sediment. The chart below shows that these are names for certain sizes.
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1. Which kind of sediment is the largest?
A. cobbles
B. sand
C. clay
D. boulders
A student observes two rocks that look alike. The only difference the
student notices between the two rock samples is that one of the rocks
breaks apart a little when scraped with a fingernail, and the other rock
does not break.
2. Which property is the most helpful in telling the two rocks apart?
A. color
B. hardness
C. weight
D. texture
A canyon is a large, deep valley that is carved into rock over a long
period of time. Which of the following most likely causes a canyon to form?
3.
A. volcano
B. wind
C. moving water
D. earthquake