Journey Characters
Who is the scientist who leads the expedition?
Who is Professor Lidenbrock?
What object helps the explorers find their way underground?
What is a map (or coded manuscript)?
What are the three types of rocks?
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This is the thin, rocky, outer layer where we live.
What is the crust?
What melted rock is called after it reaches Earth's surface?
What is lava?
Who tells the story?
Who is Axel?
In what country does the adventure begin?
What is Iceland?
Which rock type forms when lava cools?
What is igneous rock?
Which layer is made of hot, slowly moving rock beneath the crust?
What is the mantle?
This famous U.S. island state was formed by volcanoes.
What is Hawaii?
This character's rescue of the expedition by discovering an underground water source earns him lasting respect from the others.
Who is Hans?
Through what natural feature do the explorers enter Earth?
What is a volcano?
A mineral that can scratch all other minerals is most likely this gemstone.
What is diamond?
Earth's magnetic field is created by movement in this layer.
What is the outer core?
This landform is created when a river cuts through rock over a long time.
What is a canyon?
This author wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth.
Who is Jules Verne?
What major problem do the explorers face underground?
What is running out of water?
This mineral is commonly used to make pencils
What is graphite?
What is Earth's hottest and most solid center called?
What is the inner core?
What is the name for melted rock beneath Earth's surface?
What is magma?
The novel's greatest character transformation belongs to this person, whose fears are gradually replaced by confidence and curiosity.
Who is Axel?
How do the explorers finally return to Earth's surface?
What is being carried upward by a volcanic eruption?
Marble forms when limestone changes under heat and pressure. Marble is this type of rock.
What is metamorphic?
Put these layers in order from the outside to the inside. Mantle, inner core, crust, outer core.
What are crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
What process slowly wears away rocks and landforms?
What is erosion?