MS-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity
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Students who demonstrate understanding can: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how the uneven distributions of Earth’s mineral, energy, and groundwater resources are the result of past and current geoscience processes. |
Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on how these resources are limited and typically non-renewable, and how their distributions are significantly changing as a result of removal by humans. Examples of uneven distributions of resources as a result of past processes include but are not limited to petroleum (locations of the burial of organic marine sediments and subsequent geologic traps), metal ores (locations of past volcanic and hydrothermal activity associated with subduction zones), and soil (locations of active weathering and/or deposition of rock).
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Assessment Boundary: N/A
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Crosscutting Concepts
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Science & Engineering Practices
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Disciplinary Core Ideas
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Cause and Effect:
- Cause and effect relationships may be used to predict phenomena in natural or designed systems.
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Constructing Explanations (for science) and Designing Solutions (for engineering):
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions in 6– 8 builds on K–5 experiences and progresses to include constructing explanations and designing solutions supported by multiple sources of evidence consistent with scientific ideas, principles, and theories.
- Construct a scientific explanation based on valid and reliable evidence obtained from sources (including the students’ own experiments) and the assumption that theories and laws that describe the natural world operate today as they did in the past and will continue to do so in the future.
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Natural Resources:
- Humans depend on Earth’s land, ocean, atmosphere, and biosphere for many different resources.
- Minerals, fresh water, and biosphere resources are limited, and many are not renewable or replaceable over human lifetimes.
- These resources are distributed unevenly around the planet as a result of past geologic processes.
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