- Describe the structure of the earth.
- Describe the rock cycle and link together sediments, lithification, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, igneous rocks, magma, heat and pressure, uplift and weathering and erosion.
- The formation of sedimentary rocks - sandstone, limestone, shale, chalk.
- The formation of metamorphic rocks - slate and marble.
- The formation of igneous rocks - basalt and granite.
- Understand the concept of geological time and the chronological order of key events such as the first reptiles, mammals, extinction of the dinosaurs and the arrival of the first humans.
- Understand that different rock types produce different landscapes - granite, limestone, chalk.
- Understand how mountains are formed.
- Understand the different features that are found in a cave.
- Eexplain how rock type influences the landscape.
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- Core, inner core, mantle, crust, magma, lava, lithification, erosion, weathering, uplift, sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous, minerals, rocks, geological time, landscape, uplift, carboniferous, devonian, jurrasic, ordovician, permian, pleistocene
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