Big Ideas on Geo-physical unit

Analyze and Reflect on the Quranic ayat that relate to plate tectonics, volcanoes, earthquakes, geological time scale, and the rock cycle. MS-ESS2-1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process. MS-ESS2-2. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales. MS-ESS2-3. Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions. Standard ESS1.C: The History of Planet Earth Essential Understanding
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Objective
Reflect on the meaning of ayahs 3:3-4 placed therein firmly set mountains and ayah 3:41 reducing it from its borders Understand that Tectonic processes continually generate new ocean sea floor at ridges and destroy old sea floor at trenches.

Material Covered

ESS2.A: Earths Materials and Systems

Every Action has an equal and opposite reaction.

The Prophet sallahu alayhi wa sallams dua, to prevent the complete annihilation of his ummah (if they caused mischief), was accepted. Earthquakes are the punishment for our ummah. Understand that All Earth processes are the result of energy flowing and matter cycling within and among the planets systems. This energy is derived from the sun and Earths hot interior. The energy that flows and matter that cycles produce chemical and physical changes in Earths materials and living organisms.

Slowly but surely wins the race.

Allah Created the Earth in six days (periods) and the heavens simultaneously. Understand that the planets systems interact over scales that range from microscopic to global in size, and they operate over fractions of a second to billions of years. These interactions have shaped Earths history and will determine its future.

ESS2.B: Plate Tectonics and Large-Scale System Interactions

Slowly but surely wins the race.

Understand that maps of ancient land and water patterns, based on investigations of rocks and fossils, make clear how Earths plates have moved great distances, collided, and spread apart.

Vocabulary to be Familiar with: crack, decay, dust, Earths Layers, Earths Surface erosion, evaporate, flood, fresh water, geographic area, ground, latitude, lava, layer, magma, melt, meteor, ocean current, particle, petrification, remains, reservoir, wearing away/down, weather, wind forms. Vocabulary to be Proficient in: Air pressure, canyon, cavern, compaction, crater, dam, deposition, Earths crust, ecological cycle, evolution, fault line, faulting, fission, folding, forecast, formation, fossil fuel, frost, full moon, funnel, fusion, glaciation, glacier, greenhouse effect, igneous rock, individual consumption, irrigation, landslide, metamorphic rock, nitrogen cycle, oil well, parent material, porous rock, relative age, rock cycle, rock layer, running water, sand dune, saturation, sediment, sedimentary rock, sedimentation, seismograph, sinkhole, species, sublimation, tidal wave transpiration, uranium, water pressure, water supply, well.