GeoInquiries

• 1- Topography and Our National Heritage

  Interpret properties of the landscape using topographic maps of well-known national parks.

• 2- Remote Sensing

  Students consider place-based hazards using remotely sensed data.

• 3- Mining the World’s Most Used Minerals

  Students will analyze the quantities and origins of basic mineral resources.

• 4- Rock Types Tell Stories

  Examine patterns of where rock types form and the relationship they have toward each other.

• 5- North American Landforms

  Introduce and explore various types of landforms.

• 6- Cracked Plates

  Investigate dynamics in the earth’s crust that explain multiple phenomena.

• 7- The Earth Moves under our Feet

  Investigate where current quakes are today from ground-sensed motion.

• 8- Plate Type Effect on Volcanoes

  Investigate how properties of volcanoes are influenced by the crust and plate boundaries nearest them.

• 9- Mountain Building

  Discover how global mountain ranges are formed related to plate motions.

• 10- A River Runs through It

  Discover how water is gathered and travels to larger and larger watersheds to meet the sea.

• 11- Ocean Features

  Categorize sections of the oceans and understand their importance.

• 12- Fluid Earth: Winds and Currents

  Explore the relationship between air and water currents.

• 13- How’s the Weather?

  Explore relationships between temperature, pressure, and humidity with daily weather forecasts.

• 14- Tropical Storms

  Use hurricane track information to understand factors that encourage the formation of hurricanes.

• 15- Climate Change

  Find areas that are predicted to change because of climate change.

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• 1- Cracked Plates: Earthquake-Prone

  Explore the spatial distribution of earthquakes around the world and their effects on cities in one continent in pa

• 2- Earth Moves: Seismic Stations

  A case study in analysis, exploring the 2011 Virginia earthquake.

• 3- Mountain Building: Volcanoes

  Analyze the relationship that mountains and volcanoes have with tectonic plate boundaries.

• 4- Rivers: Watershed Analysis

  Analyze major and local rivers and their watersheds.

• 5- Oceans: Hot Spots

  Analyze the distribution of volcanic hot spots and their role in island formation.

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