Unit 7 Lesson 8- Earth's Building Blocks

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What is the highest grade that you can get on short response questions?

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What do you need to do to get the highest grade?

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Read page 52 and answer the following question.
Based on the various ways people use rocks, what can you infer about the importance of rocks in our daily lives and the development of human civilization? Use text evidence to support your answer.

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Read page 53 and answer the following question.
Based on the different types of rocks and how they are formed, what can you infer about the changes the Earth has gone through over millions of years? Use text evidence to support your answer.

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Read page 53 and answer the following question.
Why would rocks with larger mineral grains have a rougher texture? (page 53) Use text evidence to support your answer.

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Read page 53 and answer the following question.
Based on the different characteristics of rocks, such as color, texture, and hardness, what can you infer about how they were formed and where they might be found? (page 53) Use text evidence to support your answer.

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Read page 54 and answer the following question.
How do geologists distinguish between the two types of igneous rocks? Use text evidence to support your answer.

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Based on what you know about obsidian from reading page 55, what can you infer about its properties that made it valuable for making ancient tools? Support your answer with text evidence.

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What can you infer do tectonic plates play in metamorphic rock formation from page 58 of the reader? Support your answer with text evidence.

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Exit Ticket Question
What can the reader infer about when the first metamorphic rocks appeared on Earth, compared to igneous and sedimentary rocks from page 60 and 61? Support your answer with evidence from the text.