Types of rocks
Use vocabulary for Earth's geological processes and rock types — igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, erosion, weathering, deposition, fossil, sediment, strata, permeable, impermeable — and apply these when explaining how rocks form and how landscapes change over time
Typical age: 9–11 years
“Could your child explain the difference between a rock being weathered and being eroded — those are actually two different things?”
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- Finding patterns in dataREQUIRED
Interpreting patterns of Earth's geological features requires rock type and erosion vocabulary
- How fossils formREQUIRED
Identifying evidence in rock formations and fossil layers requires sediment, strata, and fossil vocabulary
- Earth's atmosphere
Modelling geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere interactions draws on geological vocabulary
- Erosion and weatheringREQUIRED
Measuring weathering and erosion rates requires 'weathering', 'erosion', and 'deposition' vocabulary