MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY - QUARTER 1 - 305873
The learners demonstrate understanding of...
- The formation of the universe and the solar system
- The subsystems (geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere) that make up the Earth
- The Earth’s internal structure
- The three main categories of rocks
- The origin and environment of the formation of common minerals and rocks
- Geologic processes that occur on the surface of the Earth such as weathering, erosion, mass wasting, and sedimentation (include the role of ocean basins in the formation of sedimentary rocks)
- Geologic processes that occur within the Earth
- The folding and faulting of rocks
- Plate tectonics
- How the planet Earth evolved in the last 4.6 billion years (including the age of the Earth, major geologic time subdivisions, and marker fossils).
- The different hazards caused by geological processes (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and landslides)
- The different hazards caused by hydrometeorological phenomena (tropical cyclones, monsoons, floods, and tornadoes or ipo-ipo)
- The different hazards caused by coastal processes (waves, tides, sea-level changes, crustal movement, and storm surges)