1. My A.C.E.S. Folder
“Achieving CRCT Excellence
in Science”
___________________
Name

2. 1. Earth’s Layers
Draw and Label
(Use both pages)
Crust:
•We live here
•THINNEST LAYER
•Tectonic plates
Mantle
•THICKEST LAYER
•Convection Currents
•Molten Rock
Outer Core
•LIQUID Iron and Nickel
Inner Core
•SOLID Iron and Nickel
•MOST DENSE

3. 2. Soil and Minerals-
Use both pages but leave room for mineral facts at bottom
• http://www.childrenoftheearth.org/soil-
facts-for-kids/soil-facts-for-kids-04.htm
O Horizon=“Organic” material/humus O
A Horizon=Topsoil is Alive
B Horizon=Subsoil-Because it’s hard to
get through
C Horizon=You “C” less living stuff in
it than O, A, or B
Bedrock=Soil has a bed made of rock

4. Minerals
(at bottom of soil page)
REMEMBER!
Minerals:
• Naturally occur
• Are inorganic
• Are solid
• Have a crystal structure
• Have a definite chemical composition

5. 3. The Rock Cycle
Draw and label at top
Volcanic
material
or chemical change Organic
material
Rocks are made
up of minerals. Deposition
Minerals are not Compaction
made up of rocks!
Cementation
Fossil rock
Heat and Pressure
•Or Chemical Change

6. Define the three main rock types
(at bottom of rock cycle page)
• Igneous rock-formed from melted rock that has cooled and
solidified (both at the surface and deep below it)
• Metamorphic rock-formed deep in the Earth from heat and
pressure that causes rock to completely change
• Sedimentary rock-formed at the surface of the Earth, either
in water or on land, they are layered accumulations of
sediments-fragments of rocks, minerals, or animal or plant
material compacted and cemented together
• http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/conten
t/investigations/es0602/es0602page02.cfm Animation

7. 4. Water Cycle/Atmosphere
Glue diagram on top; then fill in chart

8. Atmosphere-draw and label on bottom

9. 5. Ocean Motion/Heat Transfer
(Top Left)
Ocean Motion
• Currents-caused by wind; Earth’s rotation; changes in
temperature, salinity or density
• Waves-caused by wind; Transfer of energy from
earthquakes (tsunamis)
• Tides-caused by the gravitational
pull from the Sun and Moon on
Earth’s waters
Draw and label diagram

10. Heat Transfer
(Top Right)
• Glue diagram in place; copy song
SONG:
Conduction-
Must be touchin’
Radiation-
Moves through space
Convection-
Needs a solid or gas
To move from
Place to Place

11. Ocean topography
(Glue picture on bottom)
• Draw and label
Ocean water :
•salty
•contains sodium chloride (NaCl)
(Sea Floor Spreading)

12. 6. Plate Tectonics
• Glue plate boundary chart on bottom page
• Fill in chart
• Draw and label the following diagrams
underneath the chart

13. Continental Drift Theory:
German scientist Alfred Wegener formed
this idea of Continental Drift. He argued
that today’s continents once formed a
single landmass, which he named
Pangaea. Pangaea
Glue Pangaea above and label
• Plate Tectonic Theory: Glue volcano
The theory that would explain the foldable here
formation, movement and
subduction of Earth’s plates.

14. 7. Write “Astronomy”
on the bottom of the last sheet
On the back, glue graphic organizer with
key facts.

15. Phases-draw and label Eclipses-draw and label
Tides-draw and label

16. COMETS:
Draw and label
Head=Coma+Nucleus
Meteoroids: in space Theories Astronomers:
Meteors: “shooting stars” that burn up in Geocentric: Ptolemy devised 1. Galileo-telescope
Mesosphere
theory that the Earth was the
2. Ptolemy-Geocentric theory
Meteorites: hit Earth’s surface center of the Universe and planets
revolved around it 3. Copernicus-Heliocentric theory
Heliocentric: Copernicus came up 4. Kepler-Elliptical orbits
Asteroids: with the theory that all the planets
revolved around the Sun
Geo=Earth Helio=Sun
Centric=Center
Draw and label the solar system including the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter and the Oort Cloud at the outer edge of the
Solar System: