Unit Summary
The land on which we live is often taken for granted! This topic explores the structure of the Earth, its position within our solar system, as well as exploring ways that the Earth impacts on our lives through its provision of resources. This topic has four essential questions that we will explore:
The land on which we live is often taken for granted! This topic explores the structure of the Earth, its position within our solar system, as well as exploring ways that the Earth impacts on our lives through its provision of resources. This topic has four essential questions that we will explore:
Knowledge and Understanding
- describe the composition and features of our solar system
- explain phenomena relating to the Earth's position and behaviour in the solar system, including day and night, the seasons, tides and eclipses
- recognize the general layered structure of the earth
- describe the inner structure of the Earth in terms of core, mantle, crust and lithosphere.
- state the differences in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks
- identify that rocks are composed of minerals
- describe the importance of weathering and erosion in the rock cycle
- identify gases that comprise the greater percentage of air and explain the difference between Earth’s atmosphere and space
- describe the importance of atmospheric gases, including ozone and greenhouse gases, to life on Earth.
- distinguish between natural and made resources
- give examples of resources from living things and resources extracted from the air, Earth and oceans
- identify fossil fuels and describe some of their uses
- explain the processes of weathering, erosion and deposition
Watch this video "The Story of the Earth". It is an amazing story of the birth of the Earth, its changes over the centuries and how we have evolved. Earth began as a solid rock with no water and living organisms. So how did it evolve to have oceans, aquatic life, plants and animals??????
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