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Year 9 Mainstream and Enrichment
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Learning Objectives
- Have an awareness of the geological age of the earth, its division into eras and epochs and the appearance of different organisms, including humans, in each of these periods.
- Explain how the original single land mass called Pangea separated to form Gondwanaland and Laurasia, which further separated to form today's continents.
- Draw a cross-section of the Earth; name and describe the nature of the crust, mantle, inner core and outer core.
- Use tectonic plate theory to explain how the Earth's crust is made up of plates that are slowly being moved by convection currents in the Earth's mantle.
- Recognise factors that provide evidence for the movement of the Earth's crust.
- Identify the main tectonic plates around the Pacific region.
- Identify the three ways that tectonic plates move past each other, and the effects of this movement.
- Explain how igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rocks are formed and link them through the rock cycle.
- Recognise that fossils can be present only in sedimentary rock.
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