Lesson One

Learning objective : To identify the structure of the Earth and to explain the differences in the earth’s
crust

• Effects of earthquakes

• Tectonic plates

• Structure of the earth (crust, mantle, inner / outer core)

Task 1:

• Europe

• Asia

• Africa

• North America

• South America

• Oceania

• Antarctica

Tectonic Plates:

• Countries with frequent earthquakes

• Japan – earthquake / tsunami

• New Zealand – volcano / earthquake

Pangea

• Pangea had covered 1/3 of the planet, but 175M years ago, the earth broke up to form the
Earth of present day’s shape. If our country wasn’t breaking up, then you can drive from
California to England, and changed a lot of human integral part and animal evolution. India
and Australia would have taken part in further south, cold as much as the south pole. Going
into the middle of the land mass, there will be massive forests, deeper, the deserts. This is
because of the rain cannot reach the inner land of Pangea. The countries would have new
countries near them, and the war would happen faster as they are connected to a same land;
or, we may have been in a same country.

• 4.6M years ago, solar nebula gave birth to the solar system. Angular momentum, pressing
gasses to the center by the gravity, formed the sun. Hard materials near the sun created
planets including Earth. Heavier the materials, the easier they formed a planet. Earth collapsed
in with heavier materials inside, then gases later on as the sun blew up all the gases in the
system. After 1B years after Earth has formed, Theia, a wandering planet crashed the Earth,
creating pieces of debris. They created the moon by the Earth’s gravity. Then, some of the
meteors including ices fell onto the Earth and created the sea.