Name _____________________________________ Group ___ Date _____________________________

Evidence: Forensic Geology Stations

Warm Up

Objective: Scientists will describe forensic geology by analyzing the stations.

1. What is the topic?

2. What will you be doing?

3. Why is this important?

4. How will you know if you have done well?

Evidence: Soil Stations

Introduction

Complete the stations below. Be sure to match the title of the station with the associated questions.

History of Forensic Soil Examination1. In what way(s) did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle incorporate geology into one of his world-famous Sherlock Holmes

novels?

2. Why is German investigator Georg Popp credited with being one of the first forensic scientists to use soil evidence to solve a crime?

Soil Composition

1. What is loam, and what is it composed of?

2. What is humus?

3. Soil with more than 20% decaying organic material is called ____________________________________.

4. What makes chalk so unique?

Soil Profiles

Sand

Soil Evidence