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Grade Seven
Standard 4: Processes that Shape the Earth - Earth Science

The student will demonstrate the skills and knowledge necessary for the study of earth science.

*Not correlated to State Grade Level Expectations

4.1 Understand the geologic history of the earth

 
4.1.1  recognize that fossils are used to compare and contrast the similarities and differences of organisms that lived in the past with those living today
4.1.2  describe ways in which the earth's surface is eroded and reshaped over time (e.g., weathering , erosion, deposition)
4.1.3  use a geologic timeline to represent and study the earth's changes over geologic time
4.1.4  identify assumptions about the history of the features of earth based on the principal of uniformitarianism
4.1.5  recognize the action of water, including runoff, in the formation of river systems, aquifers, caverns and sinkholes
4.2 Understand how geomorphic forces have shaped earth

 
4.2.1*  label and describe the layers of the lithosphere
4.2.2*  describe continental drift
4.2.3*  identify the crystal plates on a world map
4.2.4*  relate the formation of convection currents to the movement of crystal plates and the general types of boundaries formed between plates
4.2.5*  describe the effects of movement of the plates on the features of earth including volcanoes, earthquakes, mountain ranges and trenches

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