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Students will identify and/or describe steps of the rock cycle and relate them to surface and sub-surface events.
Students will describe and/or explain how Earth’s surface is built up and torn down through the processes of physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition.
Students will identify different types of landforms commonly found on Earth.
Students will describe similarities and/or differences among landforms found in Florida and those found outside of Florida.
Students will identify and/or describe the impact that humans have had on Earth. - Content Limits :
Items may use the context of plate tectonics to assess the rock cycle but will not directly assess plate tectonics.
Items will not assess the role of plate tectonics in landform formation.
Items may assess the features of karst topography, such as aquifers, caverns, and/or sinkholes, but will not use the term karst topography. - Stimulus Attributes :
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None specified - Prior Knowledge :
Items may require the student to apply science knowledge described in the NGSSS from lower grades. This benchmark requires prerequisite knowledge from SC.4.E.6.1, SC.4.E.6.2, SC.4.E.6.3, SC.4.E.6.4, and SC.4.E.6.6.
SC.6.E.6.1 Describe and give examples of ways in which Earth’s surface is built up and torn down by physical and chemical weathering, erosion, and deposition.
SC.6.E.6.2 Recognize that there are a variety of different landforms on Earth’s surface such as coastlines, dunes, rivers, mountains, glaciers, deltas, and lakes and relate these landforms as they apply to Florida.
SC.7.E.6.6 Identify the impact that humans have had on Earth, such as deforestation, urbanization, desertification, erosion, air and water quality, changing the flow of water.
- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question: Deforestation occurs when large areas of trees are cut down. Which of the following impacts on the environment would result from deforestation?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
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