Tectonic Plates
Your child knows the Earth's crust is cracked into huge pieces called plates. They float on hotter, softer rock below and creep along, about as fast as fingernails grow.
In curriculum terms
Understand that Earth's crust is broken into large pieces called tectonic plates that float on hotter, softer rock beneath and move very slowly — a few centimetres per year
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If you showed your child a map of the tectonic plates, could they explain that Earth's surface is cracked into huge pieces that move very slowly — about as fast as their fingernails grow?
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Curriculum alignment
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Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
describe how weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition cause slow or rapid change to Earth’s surface
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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