Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
You the MANtle!
Anything Goes
100
Located in Arizona, carved by the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
100
These are produced when earthquakes occur. Geologists record them and study how they travel through Earth.
What are seismic waves?
100
The feature of the "My Planet Diary" in lesson 3, representing the Earth's mantle.
What is a lava lamp?
100
The thickness of the mantle (just about).
What is 3,000 kilometers?
100
This rock is usually a light color and had coarse grains.
What is granite?
200
A group of parts that work together as a whole.
What is a system?
200
This results from a force pressing on an area.
What is pressure?
200
The transfer of energy that is carried in rays like light.
What is radiation?
200
The crust and uppermost mantle is grouped together by geologists and called this.
What is the lithosphere?
200
One example of this heat transfer is walking barefoot over hot sand.
What is conduction?
300
This is what drives the constant flow of matter through the Earth System.
What is energy?
300
The layer of rock that forms Earth's outer skin.
What is the Earth's crust?
300
The measure of how much mass there is in a given volume.
What is density?
300
The stiffness of this layer is a result of increasingly high pressure. This layer also includes a region called the transition zone.
What is the Mesosphere?
400
Melting of the glaciers in Glacier National Park is an example of this process.
What is feedback?
400
Dark, fine-grained rock and part on the oceanic crust.
What is basalt?
400
The flow that transfers heat within a fluid.
What is a convection current?
400
It is said that this layer can bend like a metal spoon, but don't kick it- you will stub your toe!
What is the asthenosphere?
400
The geochemist from the University of Michigan who studied our changing planet. He was featured in "My Planet Diary" in Lesson 2!
Who is Dr. Samuel B. Mukasa?
500
The process by which rain, ice, wind, heat, and cold tear apart rock that is exposed.
What is weathering?
500
The names of the THREE MAIN layers of Earth.
What are the crust, the mantle, and the core?
500
The THREE types of heat transfer.
What are radiation, convection, and conduction?
500
The thickness of the smallest layer of the mantle- in kilometers.
What is 1222 km?
500
The Earth system's four main spheres.
What is the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the geosphere, and the biosphere?
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