Directions: Dig into the Lithosphere. Go to the web site The Earth's Layers.
Use the links provided to find the answers to the questions.
1. The planet we call Earth has how many layers? ____________
Write them in order from the center to the outside of the planet.
2. Use this diagram to answer these questions:
Name the thickest layer ...
Name the thinnest layer ...
Write as a fraction the relationship of the thinnest layer to the thickest layer.
Calculated to challenge. Perhaps you have imagined
digging a tunnel through the earth that comes out the other side.
Figure
it out ... How many miles would you have to dig?
3. Write 4 facts about the Earth's Crust.
a.
b.
c.
d.
4. The crust and the upper layer of the mantle together make up a zone of rigid, brittle rock called the
5. Write three facts about the Mantle.
a.
b.
c.
6. What are the Convection Currents?
7. Name two metals found in the Outer Core.
The border between the Outer core and the Inner Core is how many miles beneath the crust?
8. The Inner core is under so much pressure it does not move like a liquid, it ...
Write the temperature of the center of the Earth.
9. A scientist who studies rocks is called a
What does a Geomorphologist study?
10. Do A Piece of the Crust
Select one of the elements in the list.
Describe one way it impacts people's lives.
11. Describe the evidence scientists have that the Earth's tetonic plates are moving.
12. How do scientists use maps to study the earth? USGS Global Crustal Database
Dig deeper: Plate Tectonics study unit
Last Extinction - Nova Science video. Discover what scientists have considered based on layers in the earth.
How does the lithosphere interact with or impact one of these: Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere, Cryosphere?
Science - Observation Skill Builders > 40 projects
Scientists study Earth's missing crust |
For Fun - Learn the Layers of the Earth song from educational rap music site.
Is the Answer Blowing in the Wind - Siting a Wind Farm project
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where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task.
One feels oneself in contact with something that is infinite and one finds joy that is beyond expression in sounding the abyss of science and the secrets of the infinite mind." Dr. Florence Bascom, geologist
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Cindy O'Hora posted 10/2004 updated 2/2010
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