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Competency Goals:: 5: The learner will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of evidence of evolution in organisms and landforms.
Objectives:
5.01: Interpret ways in which rocks, fossils, and ice cores record Earth's geologic history and the evolution of life including:
Geologic Time Scale.
Index Fossils.
Law of Superposition.
Unconformity.
Evidence for climate change.
Extinction of species.
Catastrophic events. 5.02: Correlate evolutionary theories and processes:
Biological.
Geological.
Technological. 5.03: Examine evidence that the geologic evolution has had significant global impact including:
Distribution of living things.
Major geological events.
Mechanical and chemical weathering. 5.04: Analyze satellite imagery as a method to monitor Earth from space:
Spectral analysis.
Reflectance curves. 5.05: Use maps, ground truthing and remote sensing to make predictions regarding:
Changes over time.
Land use.
Urban sprawl.
Resource management.
Geologic Time Scale.
Index Fossils.
Law of Superposition.
Unconformity.
Evidence for climate change.
Extinction of species.
Catastrophic events. 5.02: Correlate evolutionary theories and processes:
Biological.
Geological.
Technological. 5.03: Examine evidence that the geologic evolution has had significant global impact including:
Distribution of living things.
Major geological events.
Mechanical and chemical weathering. 5.04: Analyze satellite imagery as a method to monitor Earth from space:
Spectral analysis.
Reflectance curves. 5.05: Use maps, ground truthing and remote sensing to make predictions regarding:
Changes over time.
Land use.
Urban sprawl.
Resource management.