1. Mrs. Evans’ Earth Science MILESTONE BOOT CAMP 1
Geology
“You have to expect things from yourself before you can do them.”
– Michael Jordan

2. An educated guess about what will happen in an experiment???
To Ask Questions???
Inquire/Inquiry
An educated guess about what will happen in an experiment???
Hypothesis
Logical steps scientists follow to perform experiments.
Scientific Method

3. How Do I Identify A Mineral? Use The Big Four!
Occurs naturally??? Cannot be manmade!
Inorganic???
Not living & not formed by living processes
Crystalline structure???
Orderly, repeated pattern of atoms
Solid??? Cannot be liquid or gas.

4. Other Helpful Tools Fracture BEST WORST WAYS WAYS Hardness Density
Streak
Cleavage
Fracture
Luster
Special Properties
Color

5. Minerals

6. 1 = softest through 10 = hardest

7. A handful of minerals consist of a single element – they are called native elements.

8. Minerals Are NOT Rocks!

9. Silicates – Silicon & Oxygen Nonsilicates – No Silicon

10. How are rocks classified?
Composition and Texture

12. Earth’s Crust Composition
Which 2 elements make up the majority of the Earth’s crust?
Oxygen
and
Silicon

13. How Many Types of Rocks?

14. Rock Cycle

16. HOW IS SEDIMENTARY FORMED???
HOW IS IGNEOUS FORMED???
LAVA
HOW IS SEDIMENTARY FORMED???
DEPOSITION, COMPACTION & CEMENTATION
HOW IS METAMORPHIC FORMED???
HEAT & PRESSURE

17. EARTH’S INTERIOR (INSIDE)
Do you know the percentages?
<1%
67%
Which layer composes the majority of the Earth’s interior?
33%
MANTLE

18. Which type?
Sedimentary
(strata)

19. What is this an example of?
Which type?
Fracture
Igneous
(Obsidian)

20. Notice the deformities from heat & pressure!
Which type?
Metamorphic
Notice the deformities from heat & pressure!

21. Lithosphere is divided into ???
Tectonic Plates
Crust floats on liquid part of ______
Mantle

23. Igneous – Light and Light in Density Igneous – Dark and Dense
What is Felsic Rock?
What is Mafic Rock?
Igneous – Light and Light in Density
Igneous – Dark and Dense

24. Which type of boundary? Convergent Divergent Divergent Convergent
Transform
Transform

25. I YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL-
YOU ALL CAN DO THIS!
I YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL-
EXPECT YOU WILL WIN–
WORK HARD –
NO EXCUSES!