ES Earth's Interior & Plates

1) What prevents Geologists from directly exploring the Earth's Interior ?

• Extreme pressures inside the Earth

• Extreme temperatures inside the Earth

• They're too lazy to explore

• We don't have the right equipment

3) Geologists learn about Earth's interior using indirect evidence from ____________which are produced by ___________.

• Rock samples; volcanoes

• Seismic waves; earthquakes

• Fossils; remains of living things

• Oceans; hydrogen

6. 6. How does the temperature change as you go from the surface toward the center of Earth?

• Increases

• Decreases

• Remains the Same

6. 7. How does the pressure change as you go from the surface toward the center of Earth?

• Increases

• Decreases

• Remains the Same

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

9. 9. The ___ is a layer of rock that forms Earth's outer skin.

9. 10. Where is the crust thicker, under the continents or under the ocean?

• Continents

• Ocean

9. 11. True or False - The asthenosphere can bend/move like plastic.

• True

• False

What is the correct order (starting from the surface) of Earth's layers?

• crust, mantle, inner core, outer core

• mantle, outer core, inner core, crust

• inner core, outer core, mantle, crust

• crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

Label each part of the Earth's interior.

a

f

e

b

c

d

Inner Core

Mantle

Asthenosphere

Outer Core

Oceanic Crust

Continental Crust

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Crust

,

(b) Asthenosphere

,

(c) Outer Core

,

(d) Inner Core

• Under the most pressure

• Hottest and most dense layer

• Moves like a plastic/molten material

• Made of basalt and granite

• Made of liquid metal

• Innermost layer of solid metal

• Part of the larger mantle

• Outermost layer of thin solid rock

• Has convection currents

• Furthest we have drilled into Earth

• Produces Earth's magnetic field