"Piecing Together Earth & Sky" Vocabulary
"Earth: The Inside Story" Vocabulary
Layers of the Earth
"Piecing Together Earth and Sky" Story
About the Earth
100
This word means, "better than something else."
What is superior?
100
When the earth shakes.
What is an earthquake?
100
If the earth were the size of a peach, this layer would be as thick as the peach's skin.
What is the crust?
100
The part of the Earth that brother Koh made.
What is the sky?
100
The name of the huge continent that once existed, before our continents broke apart and separated.
What is Pangea?
200
This is a job you must do.
What is a task?
200
The force that pulls things down towards the center of the earth.
What is gravity?
200
The layer at the very center of the earth.
What is the inner core?
200
The part that sister Toh made.
What is the Earth?
200
Where two plates meet.
What is a fault.
300
This is a synonym (word that means the same thing) for very smart?
What is clever?
300
A crack in the earth's crust.
What is a fault?
300
This layer is mostly solid, but some parts are made of molten (melted) rock that moves slowly.
What is the mantle?
300
What Koh does after he finishes making the sky.
What is takes a nap?
300
The part of the crust that's underneath the oceans.
What is the oceanic crust?
400
This is cloth that you can sew into clothes.
What is material?
400
A mountain made from hot melted rock from inside the earth.
What is a volcano?
400
This layer is very hot, but it's solid because the weight of the rest of the Earth presses so hard on it.
What is the inner core?
400
Where clouds come from, according to the story.
What is the sky ripping when Koh tried to stretch it.
400
The volcano in Washington State that erupted in 1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
500
Something you make with your hands.
What is handiwork?
500
A large piece of the earth's crust.
What is a plate?
500
This layer is made of very hot liquid iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
500
Where mountains come from, according to the story.
What is when Toh stitched pleats and gathers in the Earth to make it smaller to fit the sky.
500
When two plates pull apart, they form this kind of valley.
What is a rift valley?
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