INSIDE THE EARTH WEBQUEST

Earth's Interior
Earth is many thousand kilometers in depth. If you could travel deep into the earth's surface you would find that it contains three main layers; the crust, mantle and core. To learn more about the layers of Earth, click the following links and answer the questions that follow.
Go to The Earth's Interior
How is Earth's interior like an apple?
The lithosphere is divided into 2 parts (or crust).
What are they called?
What is the thickness of each part?
What are these parts primarily made of?
Click on the Volcano World link. After reading each slide click the "next" button and proceed to read the next slide. When you have examined all of the slides, complete the questions on the "questions" slide. These questions are also below.
Name the five layers of the earth in order from the outside to the center of the earth.
What causes the mantle to "flow"?
What are the two main metals that make up the outer and inner core?
Describe in your own words how the earth's layers were formed. (Slide 2 will help you.)

Then, you can try this game-- labeling the layers of the earth:
http://www.missmaggie.org/scholastic/science_eng_launcher.html

Then Play this game-- Making a Volcano:
http://kids.discovery.com/games/pompeii/pompeii.html

You can try this game as well:
http://www.scholastic.com/play/volcano.htm






http://www.kidsknowit.com/educational-songs/play-educational-song.php?song=Our%20Earth%20Inside%20Out