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Before completing this lesson you should read through the slide show.

Your teacher may go through the slide show with you, or perhaps you may navigate through it on your own device.

You may need to refer back to the slide often to complete these learning activities.

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On your worksheet there is a map of the local region.

For each of the land forms above, mark on the map where you might find some of these landforms.

Is your school in the area shown on the map? If so, mark its location.

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On your worksheet there are diagrams showing the break up of Pangaea. The continents are still moving. In the space provided draw in where you think Australia will be 10 million years into the future.

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On your worksheet there is a map of the Earth's major mountain areas. On this map sketch in the plate boundaries.

Are mountain ranges in some way linked to the plate boundaries?

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The continents of our Earth vary in their share of mountains.

Mountain regions in Australia are rare, and only 1% of the worlds mountains are found here.

In the space provided on your work sheet create a pie graph of the Earth's continent's share of mountains with the following data:

• Australia 1%

• South America 9%

• North America 15%

• Africa 8%

• Antarctica 17%

• Asia 43%

• Europe 6%

• Other 1%

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Using the information presented in the film, create a an illustrated flow chart that shows how the sandstone of our region was formed

OR

Draw an imagined sketch map view of the island volcanoes that erupted on the Illawarra coast 250 million years ago.