Layers of the Earth
Earth isn't just one solid ball of rock, there are 4 distinct layers of the Earth:
- The Dense Metalic Core
- The Liquid Outer Core
- The Semiplactic Convective Mantle
- The Broken Plates of the Lithosphereic Crust
You need to know:
TOPIC: Earth’s Structure
2. Describe the layers of the earth, including the lithosphere, the hot convecting mantle, and the dense metallic core.
TOPIC: Earth’s History
5. Describe how the movement of the earth’s crustal plates causes both slow changes in the earth’s surface (e.g., formation of mountains and ocean basins) and rapid ones (e.g., volcanic eruptions and earthquakes).
Below is the video we watched in class: Down To The Earth's Core.
- The Dense Metalic Core
- The Liquid Outer Core
- The Semiplactic Convective Mantle
- The Broken Plates of the Lithosphereic Crust
You need to know:
TOPIC: Earth’s Structure
2. Describe the layers of the earth, including the lithosphere, the hot convecting mantle, and the dense metallic core.
TOPIC: Earth’s History
5. Describe how the movement of the earth’s crustal plates causes both slow changes in the earth’s surface (e.g., formation of mountains and ocean basins) and rapid ones (e.g., volcanic eruptions and earthquakes).
Below is the video we watched in class: Down To The Earth's Core.
Layers of the Earth Rap! |
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Review what you know about layers of the earth by playing Jeopardy:
Inside Earth: Layers of the Earth
Lesson Objectives
- Compare and describe each of Earth's layers.
- Compare some of the ways geologists learn about Earth’s interior.
- Define oceanic and continental crust and the lithosphere.
- Describe how heat moves, particularly how convection takes place in the mantle.
Please Download the Chapter below:
Read it and answer the review questions
Inside Earth Layers Reading
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Layers of the Earth Interactive:
PBS Savage Earth Video Interactive about the Earth's Layers
Read the descriptions and then click contintue to view the videos.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/hellscrust/main.html
Here is a link to a MANY Earth Layers Interactives... Enjoy!
http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/561
Read the descriptions and then click contintue to view the videos.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/hellscrust/main.html
Here is a link to a MANY Earth Layers Interactives... Enjoy!
http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/561