Geological and Biological Events in Earth's History
Virginia SOL GEO.4
Investigate major geological and biological events evident in rocks and fossils.
What students need to be able to do
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the age of Earth.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about which radioactive isotope could be used to date a location.
- Explain the significance of major geologic and biological events in Earth's history.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the coevolution of Earth's systems (hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere).
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about how changes to ecosystem dynamics may have led to extinction.
- Infer geological events of a region based on correlating rock strata with and without fossils from different locations.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about climate changes in Earth's history.
- Make, support, and evaluate a claim about the geologic history of Virginia and areas around the globe.