Standards Icon Benchmark #:SC.7.E.6.4

  • General Information
    • Benchmark Number: SC.7.E.6.4
      Benchmark Description: Explain and give examples of how physical evidence supports scientific theories that Earth has evolved over geologic time due to natural processes.

      Subject Area: Science
      Grade Level: 7
      Body of Knowledge: Earth and Space Science
      Big Idea: Earth Structures - Over geologic time, internal and external sources of energy have continuously altered the features of Earth by means of both constructive and destructive forces. All life, including human civilization, is dependent on Earth's internal and external energy and material resources.
      Date Adopted or Revised: 02/08
      Date of Last Rating: 05/08
      Cognitive Complexity: High   -  What does this mean?
      Status: State Board Approved
      Assessed? Assessed

  • RELATED RESOURCES (4)

    • Good Benchmark Tie (4)
      Resource Type(s)
      » Plate Tectonics
      It provides Plate Tectonics with evidence to explain the process of Earth evolution.  Video presents how this theory makes sense in terms of the shape of different lands.  Also, it presents other evidence to support Plate Tectonics.      		 Virtual Manipulative
       Video / Audio / Animation
       Image / Photograph
       Text Resource
       Teaching Idea (Primary Type)
      » Natural Climate Change in Djibouti, Africa
      This video segment adapted from NOVA explains how Earth's position relative to the Sun might be responsible for the dramatic shift in the climate of what is now the Saharan nation of Djibouti. As permanent as geographic...    ...read more       		 Video / Audio / Animation (Primary Type)
      » Finding Impact Craters with LandSat
      Students examine and write about the effects extraterrestrial collisions might have on the land, atmosphere, water, and living things. Students then read descriptions of the actual effects of impact events and the evidence these leave behind. To...    ...read more       		 Lesson Plan (Primary Type)
       Worksheet
       Problem-Solving Task
       Image / Photograph
       Text Resource
      » Deep Sea Vents and Life
      Excerpted from NOVA: "Volcanoes of the Deep", this video segment reveals strange and luminescent forms of life, such as giant tube worms, spider crabs, and billions of microbes clumped together like a cottony web. The site where life...    ...read more       		 Video / Audio / Animation (Primary Type)

      * Please note that examples of resources are not intended as complete curriculum.


  • Test Item Specifications
    • Reporting Category: Earth and Space Science
      Item Type(s):
      This benchmark will be assessed using: MC items.
      Also Assesses
      SC.7.E.6.3 Identify current methods for measuring the age of Earth and its parts, including the law of superposition and radioactive dating.
      Clarification: Students will identify examples of and/or explain physical evidence that supports scientific theories that Earth has evolved over geologic time due to natural processes.

      Students will identify and/or describe current scientific methods for measuring the age of Earth and its parts.
      Content Limits: Items may address fossil records but should not require knowledge or recognition of specific organisms.

      Items may address folding and faulting as related to the law of superposition.

      Items assessing radioactive dating will be limited to a conceptual level. Items will not require calculations or address half-life.

      Items addressing geologic time will not require specific knowledge of eras, periods, or epochs.
      Stimulus Attributes: None specified
      Response Attributes: None specified
      Prior Knowledge: This benchmark grouping is foundational. These concepts have not been introduced in the NGSSS prior to this grade-level grouping.

  • SAMPLE TEST ITEMS (1)
    • Test Item # Question Difficulty Type
      Sample Item 1: The oldest rock formation identified on Earth is found on the shoreline of Hudson Bay in Canada....   ...read more NA MC : Multiple Choice

  • RELATED COURSES (5)

  • RELATED Access Points (3)
    • Independent
      » SC.7.E.6.In.4: Identify physical evidence, such as fossils and sedimentary rock, which show how Earth has changed over a very long period of time.
      Supported
      » SC.7.E.6.Su.3: Recognize that fossils are remains or imprints of living things from long ago.
      Participatory
      » SC.7.E.6.Pa.3: Recognize that ground on the Earth’s surface changes over time.


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