Landforms resources

Students are provided with a geological time scale which they use to interpret and answer a number of questions.

Students complete a diagram of a geyser by writing the correct labels from a given selection. Students are also required to answer what causes the water to heat up.

Students use diagrams of rock layers to answer questions concerning geological history, oldest layer, and to account for the presence of fossils.

Students use a diagram of a cutting showing exposed rock layers to answer questions about their formation, age, and geological history.

Students answer three multiple-choice questions about fossils and how they are formed.

Students follow a story about searching for gold on an island. In the process they answer five questions about landforms.

Students use a diagram that shows a proposed site for a town that has a river running through it. Students identify where it would be best to collect drinking water, and how town planners could stop the town from flooding.

Task: Students match parts of statements about how Joan Wiffen worked like a scientist, and identify what skills or experiences helped her find fossils. Assessment focus: interpreting information about how scientists work.

Students answer questions about major natural events that happened on the Earth in one week by interpreting a diagram showing these.