Height of the Mountain Assessment

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Short Answer Questions

• Q1. Use this data from the mountain cards:

  Mountain	Height (ft)	Change in Height
  Mt. Everest	29,032	Growing about 2 cm per year
  Mt. Mitchell	6,684	Getting shorter
  Mt. Narodnaya	6,214	Not growing or shrinking

  What pattern do you see between how tall a mountain is and whether it is growing? Use numbers from the table.

• Q2. Marine fossils (sea animal fossils) are found on some peaks of Mt. Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level. Explain how sea fossils could end up on top of a mountain.

• Q3. Mt. Everest grows about 2 cm per year. How much taller would it grow in 100 years? Show your work.

Sentence Starters

• I notice that the tallest mountain is ___, while the shorter mountains are ___.
• Sea fossils could end up on a mountain top because ___.
• To find the growth in 100 years, I multiplied ___, so Everest would grow ___.
• The Appalachians got shorter because ___, and the evidence is ___.
• Earthquakes and growing mountains go together, which tells me ___.

Standards

• Code: MS-ESS2-3

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