Investigate geological processes in a New Zealand locality
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You need to choose a New Zealand locality and research the geological processes that have shaped it—specifically the rocks found there, how plate tectonics and rock cycles created them, and how erosion has formed the current landforms. Your investigation will be based on fieldwork and research about these three interconnected areas.
You identify the rock types in your locality and describe the plate tectonic, rock cycle, and erosional processes that shaped it.
You explain how the plate tectonic and rock cycle processes formed the rocks, and explain how erosion shaped the current landforms.
You discuss the connections between plate tectonics and the rock cycle, and between erosional processes and the shape of today's landforms.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.