Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- Effects of weathering.
- The rate of erosion of Earth's materials.
- The kind of weathering or erosion to which the Earth material is exposed.
- The change in shape of Earth materials as the result of weathering or the rate of erosion by motion of water, ice, wind, or vegetation.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Represent data about weathering and erosion in tables and/or other graphical displays to reveal patterns.
- Analyze and interpret data to make sense of weathering and erosion.
- Compare and contrast data collected by different groups.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Events like weathering and erosion have causes that generate observable patterns and can be used to explain changes in Earth's landforms.
Vocabulary
- sediment
- weathering
- erosion
- vegetation
- angle of slope
- transported
- variables
- relative steepness
- analyze
- interpret
- data
