Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Authority Status:

Original Statement

Indexing Status:

Yes

Education Level:

4

Subject:

Science

Statement Notation:

4-ESS1-1

Statement Label en-US: Performance Expectation

Description en-US: Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

Comment en-US: Clarification Statement: Examples of evidence from patterns could include rock layers with marine shell fossils above rock layers with plant fossils and no shells, indicating a change from land to water over time; and, a canyon with different rock layers in the walls and a river in the bottom, indicating that over time a river cut through the rock.

Comment en-US: Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include specific knowledge of the mechanism of rock formation or memorization of specific rock formations and layers. Assessment is limited to relative time.

Language:

English

Concept Term:

Earth's Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth

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