Earth's Systems (HS-ESS2)
Students who demonstrate understanding can:
- Develop a model to illustrate how Earth's internal and surface processes operate at different spatial and temporal scales to form continental and ocean-floor features.
- Analyze data to make the claim that one change to Earth's surface can create feedbacks that cause changes to other Earth's systems.
- Develop a model based on evidence of Earth's interior to describe the cycling of matter by thermal convection.
- Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth's systems result in changes in climate.
- Plan and conduct an investigation of the properties of water and its effects on Earth materials and surface processes.
- Develop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
- Construct an argument based on evidence about the simultaneous coevolution of Earth's systems, and life on Earth.