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Blended Learning: Activity 3

Earth Science
1st Trimester, AY 2017-2018

Class No.: _______ Name: CABANTING, Francine

GARCIA, Tracey
MANINGAS, Keirsten Jodie

Gr./Sec.: 11-U Teacher: Sir Brandon Date: 7/28/2017

Weathering and Soils

This activity will help the students understand how weathering shapes the Earth’s surface. It will open
them to various phenomena related to geological formation and soil profiles. With their knowledge of
rocks and minerals, students should be able to explain how weathering participates in changes the Earth
undergoes. The estimated time for this activity is 60 minutes.

Introduction

Simple geologic processes slowly wear down rocks at or near the Earth’s surface to build the soil
beneath our feet. Weathering is the physical, chemical, and biological breakdown of rocks and minerals.
Weathering modifies the composition and form of the Earth’s surface. In the process, the layers of rocks
and minerals, which were originally formed under different pressure and temperature conditions,
eventually form stable forms under low-pressure and low-temperature conditions. The soil profile and
amazing geological formations are unique for each location on Earth due to various factors that
influenced their structure and form.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the activity the students will be able to:

1. Describe how rocks undergo weathering;

2. Explain how weathering are carried away by erosion and deposited elsewhere; and
3. Describe how geological formations are formed and how weathering influenced their
formations.

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Learning Tasks (20 points):

Weathering shapes the earth’s surface in various ways and it has produced amazing land formations
and areas around the world. Watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgD8hrI67fE) and
identify five (5) geological formations formed by weathering and erosion. Afterwards, complete the
table below. (20 points; 1 point each box)

Probable type of
Name of weathering that
Geological Picture and Description influenced its Reference/s
Formation formation with
explanation

Chemical weathering
took place because
as mentioned in the
video, the rocks were
Giant’s formed by an ancient
1 Causeway volcanic eruption.
. - Northern 40, 000 interlocking Basalt rocks are
Ireland basalt columns igneous rocks that
formed when lava
was brought to the
surface and it cooled
down.

The most acceptable

geological theory of
the Chocolate Hills of https://www.bohol.ph/article6.
Bohol is that the hills html
were the result of http://www.bohol-
thousands of years of philippines.com/chocolate-
They are very uniform in
weathering of marine hills.html
2 shape and mostly
limestone.
. between 30 and 50
Chocolate
meters high. They are
Hills
covered with grass,
- Philippines
which, at the end of the
dry season, turns
chocolate brown. From
this color, the hills derive
their name.

https://www.sbs.com.au/topics
/science/earth/article/2016/06
/24/turkmenistans-door-hell-
has-been-burning-45-years
3 Door To Hell- Also known as the
. Turkmenistan Darvaza gas crater, is a
giant sinkhole that is
incredibly 69 metres
wide, 30 metres deep,
and is constantly in
flames

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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Babele

Also known as the “old

women” is a name for
4
Babele an area on the Bucegi
.
-Romania Mountains plateau in
Romania, within the
Southern Carpathians.
The name comes from
some mushroom
shaped rock formations,
the result of erosion &
varying hardness of the
rock layers.

http://www.doc/govt.nz/parks-
and-recreation/places-to-
go/west-
The Pancake Rocks are coast/places/paparoa-
most spectacular in the national-park/punakaiki-
Putai area. They were pancake-rocks-and-blowholes/
formed 30 million years
Pancake from minute fragments
Rocks and of dead marine
Blowholes creatures and plants
5
landed on the seabed
.
about 2 km below the
surface.

The Blowholes are the

result of a combination
of horizontal tunnels
weathered through the
rock and narrow vertical
air shafts fashioned by
the rain. At high tide the
sea swells and forces
water, along the tunnels
and up the shafts,
creating a geyser like
effect as it emerges
from the top.

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Reference:

McConnell,D.,& Steer D.(2016). Introduction to Earth Science. Philippines: McGraw-Hill Education

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Earth Science
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Prepared by: Ms. Shelah Ramirez