7th+Sci+Earth


 * Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7

**Standard: The Earth**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0707.7.1** Use a table of physical properties to classify minerals

**Assessment Topic:** Minerals

**Essential Question (s):** Which mineral can scratch fluorite but cannot scratch quartz? Explain the four characteristics of a mineral. How could you determine if a mineral sample is pyrite or gold?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7

**Standard: The Earth**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0707.7.2** Label a diagram that depicts the three different rock types

**Assessment Topic:** Three types of rocks

**Essential Question (s):** Where are rocks located on the diagram? Name the processes that determine if a rock is metamorphic, igneous, or sedimentary.

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7

**Standard: The Earth**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0707.7.3** Identify the major processes that drive the rock cycle

**Assessment Topic:** Rock Cycle

**Essential Question (s):** How does each type of rock change as it moves through the rock cycle? What are the basic events of the rock cycle?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7

**Standard: The Earth**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0707.7.4** Differentiate between the characteristics of the earth’s three layers

**Assessment Topic:** Earth’s three layers

**Essential Question (s):** What are the characteristics of the layers that make up the Earth? How far beneath earth’s surface would you have to go to find the mantle?

__ **Subject/Course:** Science __

__ **Grade Level:** 7 __

__ **Standard: The Earth** __

__ **SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0707.7.5** __ __ Recognize that lithospheric plates on the scale of continents and oceans continually move at rates of centimeters per year __

__ **Assessment Topic:** __ __ Rate of plate movement __

__ **Essential Question (s):** __ __What is the relationship between earthquake zones and plate boundaries?__ __What distance do lithospheric plates move annually?__ __Where do earthquakes occur?__ __Why do you think the majority of earthquake zones are located at tectonic plates boundaries?__

__﻿__ __ **Subject/Course:** Science __

__ **Grade Level:** 7 __

__ **Standard: The Earth** __

__ **SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0707.7.6** __ __ Describe the relationship between plate movements and earthquakes, mountain building, volcanoes, and sea floor spreading __

__ **Assessment Topic:** __ __ Plate movement __

__ **Essential Question (s):** __ __How is the movement of tectonic plates related to mountain building, volcanoes, and sea flooring spreading?__ __What type of landform will most likely result from__ ___ (continental collision)?

**Subject/Course:** Science

**Grade Level:** 7

**Standard: The Earth**

**SPI or Check for Understanding (#): 0707.7.7** Analyze and evaluate the impact of man’s use of earth’s land, water, and atmospheric resources

**Assessment Topic:** Impact of man on earth

**Essential Question (s):** How does human use of renewable and nonrenewable resources today affect future supplies? Who do we need to conserve renewable resources even though they can be replaced? If an alternative resource could successfully replace crude oil, how might the use of that resource affect the environment?