This document contains an answer sheet for a science class. It includes questions to evaluate students' learning about locating earthquake epicenters. Specifically:
1) It has true/false questions to test understanding of concepts like using triangulation and seismograph recordings from multiple stations to locate epicenters.
2) It asks students to briefly explain how locating epicenters helps and why three recording stations are needed.
3) It provides a rubric to grade an essay question about understanding and explaining the topic scientifically.
This document contains an answer sheet for a science class. It includes questions to evaluate students' learning about locating earthquake epicenters. Specifically:
1) It has true/false questions to test understanding of concepts like using triangulation and seismograph recordings from multiple stations to locate epicenters.
2) It asks students to briefly explain how locating epicenters helps and why three recording stations are needed.
3) It provides a rubric to grade an essay question about understanding and explaining the topic scientifically.
This document contains an answer sheet for a science class. It includes questions to evaluate students' learning about locating earthquake epicenters. Specifically:
1) It has true/false questions to test understanding of concepts like using triangulation and seismograph recordings from multiple stations to locate epicenters.
2) It asks students to briefly explain how locating epicenters helps and why three recording stations are needed.
3) It provides a rubric to grade an essay question about understanding and explaining the topic scientifically.
Score: __________________ Parent’s Signature: _________ Week 1 Written Work: Performance Task: Evaluating Learning: Finding Practical Applications of Encircle T if the statement is True and F if it is Concepts and Skills in a Daily Living: false. Answer the following briefly.
1. How does locating the epicentre helps us?
_______________________________ T F 1. To locate the epicentre you _______________________________ need atleast two recorded seismogram reading from 3 _______________________________ seismograph stations. _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ T F 2. The earthquake epicenters worldwide are randomly distributed 2. Why do we need three recording stations in locating the epicenter? T F 3. Scientists use triangulation to find the epicenter of an _______________________________ earthquake. _______________________________ _______________________________ T F 4. The location of earthquake _______________________________ epicenters is the same with the location of volcanoes. _______________________________
T F 5. .S waves arrives faster than
P waves at seismograph stations.
RUBRIC FOR ESSAY (WW) (5pts)
5 4 3 2 Learner shows Learner shows Learner shows Learner shows no complete satisfactory/good limited understanding and can’t understanding of th understanding of the understanding of the scientifically explain the topic/activit topic/activity topic/activity topic/activity