GRADE BAND THEME: ORDER AND ORGANIZATION
This theme focuses on helping students use scientific inquiry to discover patterns, trends, structures and relationships that may be inferred from simple principles.
These principles are related to the properties or interactions within and between systems.
STRANDS
Strand Connections: Systems can be described and understood by analysis of the interaction of their components. Energy, forces and motion combine to change the physical features of Earth. The changes of the physical Earth and the species that have lived on Earth are found in the rock record. For species to continue, reproduction must be successful.
Topic: Physical Earth
This topic focuses on the physical features of Earth and how they formed. This includes the interior of Earth, the rock record, plate tectonics and landforms.
CONDENSED CONTENT STATEMENTS
8.ESS.1 The composition and properties of Earth’s interior are identified by the behavior of seismic waves.
8.ESS.2 Earth’s lithosphere consists of major and minor tectonic plates that move relative to each other.
8.ESS.3 A combination of constructive and destructive geologic processes formed Earth’s
surface.
8.ESS.4 Evidence of the dynamic changes of Earth’s surface through time is found in the
geologic record.
POTENTIAL CAREER OPTIONS
Searched: seismic waves