1. OAKS Prep

2. Tuesday April 8th 2014 Welcome!
Pick up a review packet from the front counter and make sure you have a highlighter today.
Write your name on your packet and look through it to get an idea of what we will be working on this week.

3. Tuesday April 8th 2014 Rocks, Water and Weather

4. The Earth is a dynamic planet.

5. When we look inside our planet…

7. Crust and mantle, crust and mantle…
The earth’s layers are responsible for:
Earthquakes
Continental Drift (pangea to the 7 continents we have now)
AND the aurora borealis!!!

8. Three main types of rocks
Igneous- formed in volcanoes
Sedimentary- formed from sand and river debris under pressure
Metamorphic- formed from chemical weathering, heat and pressure

9. Open your packet to page 4: The rock cycle
Try and fill in as much of your diagram as possible in the next 3 minutes based on what you remember about the rock cycle.

11. Do rocks change quickly?

12. Like rocks, water cycles too!
Turn to page 5 in your packet

14. The water cycle
At what point do trees and plants give off water to the surrounding air?
Transpiration

15. The water cycle
When water molecules cool down from a gas and become a liquid in clouds we call that __________________________.
condensation

16. The water cycle
Rain, snow, sleet, hail and any other falling water is considered _________________.
precipitation

17. Weather is caused by air, water and rocks

18. Let’s forecast!

19. Barometric Pressure
Refers to air pressure and causes wind and cloud patterns due to high and low pressure systems

20. Cloud Types

21. Humidity? Dew point is when water vapor turns to visible moisture
Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air

22. Vocab to Highlight Sedimentation Deposition Precipitation Core Pangaea
Water table
Erosion
Weathering
Tectonic activity
Geologic time scale
Water cycle

23. Practice Questions
1. During the water cycle the water on earth spends MOST of its time in which two areas?
A. Clouds and rain B. Plants and the ocean
C. Clouds and the ocean D. Runoff and Plants
ANSWER: C

24. Practice Questions
If a high pressure system was forecasted for your region you would expect the weather that day to be:
A. clear and sunny B. raining
C. cloudy D. thunderstorm
ANSWER: A

25. Practice Questions
To change an igneous rock directly into a metamorphic rock what environmental factors must occur?
A. volcanic activity B. erosion and weathering
C. cooling and melting D. pressure and heat
ANSWER: D

26. Homework
Please complete the 6th page in your review packet for homework tonight.
This page reviews what we talked about today about the layers of the earth.

27. Welcome ELT!
Grab a piece of paper from the front counter and write a sentence at the top, any sentence that is appropriate.