Monday 15th December

Late or Missing work-

 1^st Persuasive choice- Will B & Brad

Earthquake letter- Echo, WillB, Travis, & Noah R.

Geology Research paper- Will b, Brad, Adi, Noah R

Mountain Metaphor Notecard-  Ireland, Travis,   Noah R.

Mountain Brochure- Will B, Travis, Maggie, Noah R,

Tuesday December 16^th-

Mini- classes

Spirit Week-Crazy Hair/ Hat

Wednesday December 17^th-

Late Opening 10:45

Geology Unit Test!!!! Study for it!!!! See answer sheet below...we went over it in class.

Spirit Week-Grade color- 6th-Pink, 7th-Blue, 8th- Black

Thursday December 18^th-

Mini-classes

Spirit Week-Twin Day- Our class wear blue if you don't have a twin...

Friday December 19^th-

Spirit Week-Ugly Holiday Sweater

December 20^th- January 5^th- NO SCHOOL!!!! Winter Break READ READ!!!

Tuesday January 6^th -

Come as a character from your choice novel-Fun times!!!

****Current Event orange- Noah B, Cyrus, Truman, Ireland, Tana Make Up- Will B,

SELL APPLEBEE”S TICKETS!!!

On the 24th of January from 8 to 10 am, we will be holding our HUGE fundraiser--8th grade students and middle school teachers from SES will be serving a pancake breakfast at the Applebee's by Lloyd Center!  Tickets are 10 dollars each, and SES gets 6 dollars of every ticket sold. The money raised goes into the GO Fund. Our goal is for each middle school classroom to sell 100 tickets!

That means about 3-4 tickets per student!  Each student will get 2 tickets valued at $10 each, or $20 total, today in order to find someone to purchase them. Students may request more than 2 tickets as well (today one student took 4 and others decided to start with the 2 minimum). We are encouraging all 8th graders to sell 5 tickets, all 7th graders to sell 3 tickets, and all 6th to sell 2....that's our goal!

In addition to funding our overnight trips, this is a great experience for the students to get a feel for restaurant work and service jobs.. It's also great to be on the receiving end--having students and teachers serving you! It's a community event that only works if we all pitch in--whether it be buying tickets, drinking coffee poured by an 8th grader you've known since kindergarten, being seated by a student you have barely spoken to, getting a coffee refill from your child's teacher....

Don’t delay! Buy early! These make great gifts--for yourself or for others, especially when you explain how important it is as a community event. Invite your friends and the whole family!  Thanks for all of your support!

Rock Type Questions  Noah B, Miles, Tony

1. Compare obsidian and Pumice, how are they the same and different?   

Answer: Obsidian is black, glassy, sharp, denser, Pumice is white, less dense, floats

2.            How are metamorphic rocks formed?

Answer:  Heat and pressure

3.            How are igneous rocks formed?

Answer: When lava and magma cools

4.            How are sedimentary rocks formed?

Answer: When sediment is deposited into one place

5.            Name a type of rock that buildings downtown are made of?

Answer: marble, granite, sandstone

volcanoes   Sten,Truman, and Travis

1. What are 3 types of volcanoes?  

 Shield, Strato, and Cinder Cone, Fissure, Caldera  volcanoes

2. What is magma called when it is on the surface?  Lava

3. What is the most common place a volcano might erupt?  Pacific Ring of fire

4. Where does most of the lava come out of? The top and vents

5. What year did Mt. Saint Helens erupt? 1980

Tsunamis     Ireland, Neo, Collin

1.What most often causes a Tsunami? Earthquakes

2.What are the 5 most hazardous/at risk states in the U.S.? Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska

3.What is the best thing to do if you are near the coast when a  tsunami is coming? Go uphill to solid ground

4. What is a warning sign that a tsunami is coming? The ocean tide goes out far and fast

5.True or false? Tsunamis lose much energy while traveling across the ocean False

Claire, Griffin, and Cyrus     Missoula Floods

About how many floods where there?

A.1   B.10 C.40  D.150

About how long ago was the first flood?

A.25,000 B.15,000 C.10,000 D.8,000

How high was the ice dam?

A.500 B.1,000 C.1,800 D.2,500

What are the large rocks that got moved miles by the Missoula Floods called?

A. erratics B. boulders C.  Missoula rocks

Where were the Missoula floods?

Answers

C.

B.

D.

A.

Scablands

Geologic Time

By Tana, Rowyn, Noah R.

Questions

1. What’s the longest time period?

2.What’s the shortest time period?

3.What time period are we in?

4.In what time period did the dinosaurs go extinct?

5. What is the difference between eons and periods?

Answers

1.Precambrian

2.Holocene

3.Holocene

4.The end of the Cretaceous Period

5.Eons are a certain amount of time and periods vary in time.

Layers of The Earth Answer Key

By Ari, Brad, Echo

1.How many main layers are there?

a) 7

b) 4

c) 5

d) 3

2) Is the Inner Core solid or liquid?

a) Solid

b) Liquid

c) Both

3) What is the crust primarily made of?

a) Metamorphic

b) Igneous

c) Sedimentary

d) All of the above

4) What is the crust underneath water named?

a) Oceanic crust

b) Continental crust

5) List the layers in descending order.

• Crust
• Mantle
• Outer Core
• Inner Core

Questions for quiz: Pangea Adi, Annika, Grace

1. What is Pangea?
2. Who was Alfred Wegener?
3. How old is Pangea?
4. When did Pangea die?
5. What does Pangea mean?

Answer Key:

1. A supercontinent that was around millions of years ago
2. The first person who came up with the theory of Pangea
3. 270 Million years ago
4. 200 years ago
5. The name came from Ancient Greek pan "all, entire, whole" and Gaia "Mother Earth, land"

Earthquakes  Sara, Will, Leilani, Johanna

1.what are the main causes of earthquakes?

2.what causes more death in earthquakes?

3.do all earthquakes cause tsunami?

4.what are the three types of seismic waves?

5. what scales are earthquakes measured on?

answer key:

1. tectonic plates shifting, colliding, or releasing built up pressure
2.  

falling rubble and collapsing structures

• injuries
• tsunamis
• not being able to access resources

3. no, not all earthquakes cause tsunamis

4. surface waves, primary waves, secondary waves

5. Richter scale, and the Moment Magnitude scale