A presentation I did for my son's 2nd grade class in very basic geological terms and concepts. I brought in numerous fossils I have collected over the years for a visual and interactive teaching aids. I concluded the talk with a mock science experiment displaying the chemical reaction of a volcano erupting.

1. Geology 101
Presentation for:
Mrs. Jennifer Rydberg
2nd Grade Class
Located at:
FAIRVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
January 6, 2012

2. Geology – What is this subject?
• Geo- is taken from the Greek word γη or γαια
meaning “Earth", usually in the sense of
"ground or land”.
• The science of study the Earth.
• It is split into several disciplines, including:
Petrology (the study of rocks), Geophysics
(the study of the Earth using physics),
Palaeontology (the study of fossils) and
Mineralogy (the study of minerals).

3. Geologic
Time Scale

4. Solar System
Project Overview

5. NASA - Mercury Dual Imaging System,
spacecraft captured several stunning
The Earth images of Earth during a gravity assist
swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2,
2005.
http://youtu.be/zmBv7udnbes

6. The Earth is 4.54 billion years

7. Structure of the Earth
• Inner Core (Solid)
• Outer Core (Liquid)
• Mantle
• Crust

10. What is a Rock?
3 Types of Rocks
• Igneous
• Sedimentary
• Metamorphic

19. Water Links
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Am9JPfu
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcZbN0Z0
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22. The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni o
Hawai„i) are an archipelago of eight major
islands. The islands are the exposed peaks of a
great undersea mountain range known as the
Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain.

23. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAxj2ob_Jo
U&feature=related
Ambrym, Vanuatu Island near Eastern Australia
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiEw1p5Ba
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Mount. Etna on the island of Sicily
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/italys-mt-
etna-
erupts/2012/01/05/gIQAVJztcP_video.html

24. Fossil
• Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally "having
been dug up") are the preserved remains
or traces of animals, plants, and other
organisms from the remote past.

25. Early Cambrian period (526
million years ago) through the
end of the Permian about 250
million years ago. Roaming the
oceans for over 270 million
years.

26. Ammonites are an extinct group of marine
invertebrate animals. These molluscs are
more closely related to living (octopuses,
squid, and cuttlefish) of today. They lived in
the oceans of the Paleozoic era roughly 542
to 251 million years ago.

27. Tyrannosaurus Rex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekBM7nLvpb
U

30. Triceratops
http://movieclips.com/PxN3a-jurassic-park-movie-
the-sick-triceratops/

31. Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily.

33. Lava tubes are natural conduits through which lava travels
beneath the surface of a lava flow, expelled by a volcano
during an eruption.

35. Drill Rig
@
Tinker Air Force Base

36. Drill core - Garber
Sandstone
@
Tinker Air Force Base