This week's Driving Questions!!!!

Earth PLB Week 2 Driving Question:

What causes the formation of sedimentary rocks and fossil fuels, identify alternative energy resources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biofuels, and identify fossils as evidence of past living organisms and how the land used to be.

What you need to know:

You will need to be able to explain how sedimentary rocks form.

You will need to know how fossils are located and what they depth they are found tells us.

You will need to know why fossils are important.

You will need to know what fossil fuels are and how they form.

You will need to know what alternative energy is.

You will need to know what renewable and nonrenewable resources are.

You will need to know what wind energy, solar energy, hydroelectric energy, geothermal energy, and biofuels are.

We will go over the necessary definitions in class Monday.