Objective: Use rules of relative dating to determine how old an object is. Responsibilities: Relative dating cards and puzzle finished. ATTENTION!!! ALL.

Objective: Use rules of relative dating to determine how old an object is.

Responsibilities: Relative dating cards and puzzle finished.

ATTENTION!!!

ALL LATE WORK DUE 6/11

NO LATE WORK WILL BE TAKEN DURING FINALS WEEK.

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6/8 Warm-up

• Please pick up a Dried Mud Puddle Puzzle from the front of the room.• Put the order of events in the correct order.(this is an individualActivity, we will shareLater)

To Do:

• 1. Match relative dating definitions • 2. Get Mrs. Coda or Mr. Pearson to sign off on

your correct definitions.• Get materials• Glue stick, Scissors, 3 note cards.• Cut each note card in half to make 6 flash cards.

• When your flash cards are complete you use them to complete the relative dating puzzle puzzle on the screen.

4 Last WHOTsQuestions

• Tuesday– Moraine

• Thursday– The shape of

Valleys

• Wednesday– Sorted VS

Unsorted Sediments.

• Monday– Hydroelectric

Power.

•Today’s - super position.

Objective: Apply logic of relative dating to features in Eastern WA

Responsibilities: Study for final.

ATTENTION!!!

ALL LATE WORK DUE 6/11

NO LATE WORK WILL BE TAKEN DURING FINALS WEEK.

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RELATIVE DATING

Determining whether an object or an event

is older or younger than other objects or

events

(Not exact ages)

Law of Original Horizontality• New layers of rock are formed flat!

• List the rocks in order from youngest to oldest!

Superposition

• Younger rock lies above older rock

Disturbed Rock

LayersFAULT: A break in Earth’s crust

FOLD:

Bent rock layers

Disturbed Rock Layers (II)

INTRUSION: Molten rock squeezes into existing rock and cools

TILT:

Forces inside Earth slant rock layers

Disturbed Rocks 1 Disturbed Rocks 2

Disturbed Rocks 3 Disturbed Rocks 4

Unconformity

• Break in the geologic record

• Frequently old layers of rock are eroded before new ones laid down

Relative Dating

Exercises

• Try this one

F

D

E

C

B

A

Relative Dating

Exercises

• E (oldest)

• C

• B

• A

• D

• F (youngest)

F

D

E

C

B

A

A Puzzle of Epic Proportions

HOW DID THE CHANNELED

SCABLANDS OF EASTERN

WASHINGTON FORM?

What do you see here?

Describe in detail at least 3 features that you see in this picture.

Where is this?

FULL SCALE PERSPECTIVE

Think outside the box. Even if it doesn’t seem possible.

What could cause big landforms you just saw?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

PICTURES FROM DIFFERENT PLACES IN THE REGION

Make notes for yourself about what you see and where you see it

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THE REGION

What do you see?

MORE LOCATIONS IN THE REGION

What do you see?

Recognize them now???

ANOTHER LOCATION IN THE REGION

Claim: The following is evidence that there was a large scale flooding event in Eastern Wa.

Evidence: From space, it looks like a braided stream bed is dried up,

but it is too big to be a river. 200ft+ high river walls ancient waterfall 9x bigger than Niagra Falls Sorted sediment foreign boulders Giant ripples

You give the reasoning.

EASTERN WA EVIDENCE

WHOT Q

Disturbed layers of rock.

Objective: Discover… where did the water come from?

Responsibilities: Study at least 15 minutes for final... Tonight!

ATTENTION!!!

ALL LATE WORK DUE TOMORROW

Also: I am missing a ton of glacier webquests from last week.

If you checked out a text book, bring that back!

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Where did the water come from???

FULL SCALE PERSPECTIVE

MONTANA’S ROCKY MOUNTAINS

WHAT DO THESE LOCATIONS HAVE IN COMMON?

In particular, what do you notice about the hills?

ANOTHER LOCATION IN MONTANA

ANOTHER LOCATION IN MONTANA

ANOTHER LOCATION IN MONTANA

Lets see all of the awesome!

STOP

What were the two theories that came before a massive flood to explain the scablands?

What was the town called where the glacial lake formed?

What happens when super-cooled water rushes through a glacier?

SLEEPY QUIZ…

Glacial Lake Missoula

WHOT Q

Objective: Finish Missoula, Study for Final.

Responsibilities: Study at least 15 minutes for final... EACH NIGHT!

ATTENTION!!!

ALL LATE WORK DUE TODAY!!!

NO LATE WORK WILL BE TAKEN DURING FINALS WEEK.

6/11

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MAP OF FLOOD

WHOT Q

Relative Dating Practice.

Relative Dating Exercises• Always start

with the oldest rock and work toward the present.• List the letters

in order, with the oldest at the bottom

T

Relative Dating Exercises• F (Youngest)• J• B• R• Erosion A• S• M• K• P (oldest)

T

Relative Dating Exercises• Use colors to

represent each layer

Relative Dating Exercises• Yellow (youngest)• Orange• Brown• Erosion N• Folding A• Green• Blue• Green• Blue• Red• Green• Blue• Red• Green (Oldest