Science Grade 6
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Homework
Week of May 9th
Monday (5/9): Homework will be posted on Google classroom at 3:00 PM.
Tuesday (5/10): Read pages 114-117 in your textbook and answer all questions posed throughout the assigned reading.
Wednesday (5/11): Finish reading pages 118-123 in your texbook and answer all questions.
Thursday (5/12): Begin stuyding for the Chapter 4 test next Thursday on Earthquakes (5/19). Textbook pages 102-123. Look over your notes in your science notebook, study all 3 Review & Reinforce/Lesson Quiz worksheets, and re-read the questions & answers that are posed throughout the chapter.
Friday (5/13): No class/Enjoy the weekend!Feeling anxious or overwhelmed? Visit the "Virtual Calming Room" below!
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Chapter 4 Test - Earthquakes
Test Date: Thursday, May 19th
Lesson 1: Forces in Earth's Crust
- Tension, compression, and shearing work over millions of years to change the shape and volume of rock.
- When enough stress builds up in rock, the rock breaks, creating a fault.
- Plate movement can change a flat plain into features such as folds, folded mountains, fault-block mountains, and plateaus.
Vocabulary
stress, tension, compression, shearing, normal fault, reverse fault, strike-slip fault, plateau
Lesson 2: Earthquakes and Seismic Waves
- Seismic waves carry energy produced by an earthquake.
- The amount of earthquake damage or shaking that is felt is rated using the Modified Mercalli scale.
- An earthquake's magnitude, or size, is measured using the Richter scale or moment magnitude scale.
- Geologists use seismic waves to locate an earthquake's epicenter.
Vocabulary
earthquake, focus, epicenter, P wave, S wave, surface wave, seismograph, Modified Mercalli scale, magnitude, Richter scale, moment magnitude scale.
Lesson 3: Monitoring Earthquakes
- Seismic waves cause a simple seismograph's drum to vibrate, which in turn causes the pen to record the drum's vibrations.
- From past seismographic data, geologists have created maps of where earthquakes occur around the world. The maps show that earthquakes often occur along plate boundaries.
Vocabulary
seismogram