Category: Earth and Space Exploration

We’re going to do a concept map of the solar system here’s how you do that. 1. First, get an 11×17 piece of paper. If you don’t have a piece that big you can make one by taping two 8.5×11 (that’s normal size) pieces together. 2. Draw the Sun, the 8 planets and the asteroid…

Project: Scale Model of the Solar System Create a scale model of the solar system to show relative sizes of the Sun and the planets. Also, please don’t use any type of AI or copyright, they can detect it. Please and thank you! Also the accepted pdf files, are: .ppt, .pptx, .xls, .xlsx, .doc, .docx,…

Atlantic hurricane season begins each year on June 1st. As we know from readings in the textbook, these storms form within one, humid air mass and can be devasting to areas where they make landfall. For this lab exercise, you will be reviewing data from the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, tracking some storms and answering…

Introduction: Review the text on hotspot volcanism and recall that hotspots produce a string of dormant volcanoes behind an active volcano. Because we know the age of the volcanoes and their distance from the hotspot, we can use the dormant volcanoes produced by a hotspot to determine the speed and direction that a tectonic plate…

“For this activity, you will be reviewing the geological time scale in the module reading assignment from the Geological Time chapter in the PRI Digital Atlas of Ancient Life –online textbook and the Earth History chapter from the OER Commons Earth Science textbook. Use the images of the geologic time scales in your readings to…