Yosemite

Today you will learn about Yosemite.  Go here and read the Overview.

Answer the following questions in an Appleworks document or on a sheet of paper.  Turn the Appleworks document into the server or turn the paper into the substitute teacher.

1. What kind of plate movement happened 200 million years ago to form the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range?
2. What happened 5 million years later?
3. What happened 65 million years ago?
4. What happened 60 million years ago?
5. What happened 2.5 million year ago?
6. What happened 1.2 million years ago?
7. What kind of rock is granite?
8. What is a field of underground rock called?
9. What minerals are in granite rock?
10. Fast flowing streams carved what in the landscape?
11. 1.2 million years ago, what cut the U-Shaped  valleys in Yosemite?


No comments:

Post a Comment