6th grade science (Period 1-6) Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- Spring 2012
- Location
- Rm. 327
- Code
- SCI
- Description
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Welcome to 6th grade Earth Science! My name is Mr. Adamucci and I look forward to meeting all of you. As we begin our adventures as young scientists, we will be focusing on using the scientific method to create hypotheses, collect and analyze data, and form conclusions throughout all of our investigations. I am looking forward to an exciting year filled with discovery, laboratory investigation, reading, new vocabulary and presentations. A tentative schedule for the year is as follows:• Ecology/ Biomes• Earth’s Waters• Topography• Weather• Shaping Earth’s surface• Plate Tectonics and Earth’s Structure• Family Life and Too Good for Drugs
Upcoming Assignments
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Past Assignments
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--Venn Diagram on 3 types of volcanoes -- composite, shield, and cinder cone
--Parent Signature on Stampsheet
--Test on Thursday 5/23 and Friday 5/24!
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--Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics Activity Due Tues. 5/22
--Parent Signature on Test
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warm-up # 3
1. Why are there so many volcanoes along the ring of fire?
2. Why do volcanoes form along plate boundaries?
3. Write a story, song, or short poem about your trip through a volcano. (include key vocab)
Homework: Earthquake Lab Due Friday 5/18
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Warm-up # 2
1. What are the three types of volcanoes? (Pg. 230)
2. Describe the 3 stages of volcanic activity (Pg. 227)?
3. Draw a volcano and label its parts. (Pg. 223)
Homework: 6. 2 Volcanic Eruptions Worksheet
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Warm-up # 1 5/14/2012
1. What is the difference between magma and lava?
2. What are some plate boundaries where volcanoes can form?
3. What is a hot spot?
4. What is the name of the volcanoes that form around the rim of the Pacific Ocean?
5. How was your weekend? Do anything fun?
Homework: Volcano Vocabulary Chart Due Monday
6.2 Volcanic Eruptions Worksheet Due Monday
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-- Parent Signature on Stampsheet
--Earthquake Test on Thursday 5/10 and Friday 5/11
-- Test will cover chapter 5
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Warm-up # 6
1. Draw the epicenter and the focus.
2. What are the three differences between the three different types of seismic waves.
3. How was your weekend? What did you do?
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Work on extra credit (optional)
Earthquake Test is on Thursday/Friday!
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Warm-up # 5
1. What type of wave arrives at a seismograph first.
2. What does a seismograph record?
3. What is one difference between a p (primary) wavelength and a s (secondary) wavelength.
4. What’s the difference between the epicenter and the focus?
5. What are the three types of scales used to record an earthquake's magnitude (strength).
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Read Puente Hills Article
Puente Hills Article Questions Due Monday
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Warm-up # 4
What are the three main types of stress in rock? Draw arrows.
Draw arrows for each one. What are the three types of faults?
Where is the San Andreas fault? What type of fault is it? What type of plate boundary is it?
How was your weekend?
Homework: Seismic Waves Worksheet Due Thursday/Fri. (5/3 or 5/4)
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Practice the 3 types of faults/stress
Quiz on Tuesday/WEdnesday
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Warm-up # 3
1. Draw a base-isolated building. Draw a fixed-base house.
2. What are 3 vital items to put in your earthquake kit?
3. Draw liquefaction.
4. Why does the ground shake during an earthquake?
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Forces in earth's crust worksheet Due Monday
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Warm-up # 2
1. Describe a base isolated building.
2. What is the best way to protect yourself during an earthquake?
3. What is the term for when earthquake's violent movement turns loose soil into liquid mud.
4. Draw and describe how a tsunami forms.
HOMEWORK: Earthquake Brochure Due 4/27/2012
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Warm-up # 1
1. Have you ever been in a earthquake? Please describe the experience (2 sent.)
2. What are some good things to do when there is an earthquake?
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Earthquake Safety Worksheet
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EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT! (OPTIONAL)
3-D model of the Earth (up to 20 points)
Due April 23rd!! (not May 3rd)
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1. Earthquake Vocabulary Chart Due Monday 4/23
2. Extra Credit 3-D model of the earth Due Monday 4/23
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Warm-up # 8
Draw and label the three types of plate boundaries.
2. In the process of sea-floor spreading, where does molten material rise from the mantle and erupt?
3. A rift valley forms where two plates _________.
4. A collision between two pieces of continental lithosphere at a convergent boundary produce a ____________.
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Finish Review Pages Due Thursday/ Friday
Test on Thursday/ Friday 4/19 and 4/20
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Warm-up # 9
1. Draw and label the three different types of plate boundaries.
2. Draw Subduction.
3. Draw sea floor spreading.
4. Name the layers of the earth starting with the center and going towards the edge.
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1. Review Pages Due Thursday/Friday
2. Parent Signature on Stampsheet
3. Test on Thursday/ Friday
4. Finish Milky Way Bar Lab
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Warm-up # 7
1. Who came up with the theory of sea floor spreading?
2. What is the role of the mid-ocean ridge in sea-floor spreading?
3. Describe the process of Subduction at a deep ocean trench?
4. What are three evidences that help prove the theory of sea floor spreading?
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---Finish Plate Tectonics worksheet Due Monday 4/16
---Finish Vocabulary Pictures on Vocab Chart
---3-D Extra Credit Project Due 4/23
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Warm-up # 6
1. What are the three evidences that Wegener gave for continental drift?
2. Which layer of the earth is made of molten magma with hot convection currents?
3. Which layer of the earth contributes to our magnetic field? How?
4. Why did most scientists reject Wegener’s theory for nearly half a century?
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--- Sea Floor Spreading Worksheet Due 4/13
---3-D model Extra Credit Due 4/23
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Warm-up # 5
1. What is Pangaea?
2. Who discovered the theory of continental drift?
3. Name the layers of the earth starting from the top and going down.
4. How was your spring break? What did you do?
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----Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Chart -- definitions only Due Tues./Wed.
----Extra Credit Project Due 4/23
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Warm-up # 4 3/23/2012
1. What tools have we used to figure out what's inside the earth?
2. What do geologists study?
3. Name the layers of the Earth and and state if they are solid or molten.
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1. Parent Signature on Test
2. Study for Earth's Layer's Quiz
3. Finish the Lab Activity -- Pie Slice of the Earth -- Pg. 3
Warm-up # 3
Label the layers of the earth and identify their composition and whether they are solid or molten.
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Warm-up # 2
1. The center of the earth contains a hot, molten metal in which layer?
2. The Asthenosphere is part of which layer of the Earth?
3. The continental crust is made of _____ rock and the oceanic crust is made of _________ rock.
4. Which Layer of Earth is made partly of crust and partly of mantle material?
Homework: What's Happening during Convection Worksheet Due Tuesday/ Wednesday 3/20 and 3/21
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1. Weather Report is Due on Monday 3/19
2. Egg Activity is Due ( Pg. 132 #4)
3. Draw, Color and Label the Layers of the Earth. (Pg. 136 - 137)
Warm-up # 1
1. If you dig a hole far enough down through the dirt, what do you think your shovel will hit?
2. Other than rock, what else do you think is below the surface of Earth?
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Earth's Interior Vocabulary Chart Due Thursday/Friday 3/19
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Warm-up # 7 3/12/2012
1. What is the name of the tool that measures wind direction?
2. Illustrate a sea breeze. (use notes)
3. Global winds will curve due to what effect?
4. Draw and describe why low pressure can bring rain? (pg. 316)
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-- Parent Signature on Stampsheet
-- Parent Signature on Stampsheet
-- Test on Tuesday/ WEDnesday on Ch 7.2 and 7.6
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Warm-up #6
1. Draw a box of cold air and warm air.
2. Label the H and the L on each box.
3. Draw an arrow to show wind movement between the two boxes.
4. What direction is the wind blowing?
5. What is the name of the wind?
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----Wind Review Worksheet -- Pages 2 and 3 of the density, pressure, and review worksheet
Due Monday
--- Air Pressure TEST on Tuesday/Wednesday 3/13 and 3/14
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Warm-up # 5
1. What is the tool used to measure wind speed?
2. Write a poem about the winds.
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Warm-up # 4
1. Draw a box of warm air.
Draw a box of cold air.
How are the two boxes different?
2. What happens when you poke a hole in an inflated bike tire? Why?
3. How was your weekend?
Homework: What Creates Weather Worksheet Due Tuesday/Wednesday 3/6 and 3/7
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Warm-up # 3
1. What is altitude?
2. What is the name of the instrument used to measure air pressure?
3. When climbing a mountain, why do you feel out of breath at the top?
4. What is density?
5. Using your knowledge of warm and cold air, why do convection currents occur?
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Parent Signature on Test
Balloon Lab Worksheet
Reading a Weather Map Worksheet (use weather.com for help)
Due Monday, March 5th
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Warm-up # 2 2/28 and 2/29
1. Write three things that are different between warm air and cold air?
2. Why do divers have to be careful when they descend down the bottom of an ocean? What could happen?
3. Write the complete sentence:
The lower the altitude, the _________ the air pressure.
The higher the altitude, the ________ the air pressure.
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Pressure and Density Worksheet due 3/1 and 3/2.
(don't do the wind ws)
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Warm-up # 1
1. Describe a crazy weather experience.
2. How was your weekend?
Homework: Air Pressure Worksheet Due Tuesday/Wednesday
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Warm-up # 7
1. Arrange the colors of the visible spectrum from shortest to longest wavelength.
2. Draw a picture of either a conduction, convection, or radiation example.
3. What is the greenhouse effect?
4. Why is the sky blue?
Parent Signature on Stampsheet
Stampsheet packet due with all seven warm-ups!
Test on Friday 2/24!
Finish Heat Transfer Lab.
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Warm-up # 6 2/14/11
Review
1. Write the four major gases found in the atmosphere?
2. Satellites orbit the earth in which layer of the atmosphere?
3. Name one example of radiation?
4. Name one example of convection?
5. Name one example of conduction?
6. How does heat travel when you put your finger in boiling hot water? Why?
Homework: Energy on the Move Lab Due Wed. 2/22
Study all vocabulary words for upcoming test.
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Warm-up #5
1. Draw a solid, liquid, and gas.
2. What is conduction? Give an example.
3. What is convection? Give an example.
4. What is radiation? Give an example.
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States of Matter Picture Due Wed. 2/15
Heat transfer in the atmosphere Due Wed. 2/15
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Warm-up #4 (use notes and hwk)
a.) What is radiation?
b.) What are the three main types of electromagnetic waves produced by the sun?
c.) What are the colors of the rainbow from longest to shortest wavelength?
d.) Why is the sky blue?
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Hot is Hot Lab!
Hot is Hot Lab!
Parent Signature on Test!
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Warm-up # 3 2/8/2012
1. What is the ozone layer?
2. Draw an ozone molecule.
3. What are the six layers and give a characteristic for each layer?
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Energy in Earth's Atmosphere worksheet Due Friday 2/10
Energy in Earth's Atmosphere vocab chart Due Friday 2/10
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Layers of the Atmosphere Worksheet Due Tuesday/Wednesday 2/8/2012
Warm-up # 2 2/6/2012
a.) What are the six layers of the atmosphere starting from the earth and going up.
b.) What are the four main gases in the atmosphere; starting with the most abundant?
c,What are three things that the atmosphere does to help us?
d.) What is the definition of the atmosphere?
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Warm-up # 1 2/2/2012
a.) What do you think the atmosphere is? What is one way it helps us? (pg.267)
b.) What do you think is the most common gas in the atmosphere?
c.) Why do you think it is colder in the mountains than in the city?
d.) Why do you think a jacket keeps you warm?
--Atmosphere Vocabulary Chart
--Layers of the Atmosphere Picture (Draw and Color each layer of the atmosphere)
--Air Around You Worksheet