Spheres of Earth
Inside Earth
Thinking about Inside Earth
Do you remember?
Big thinkers
100

What is the shape of Earth?

Sphere

100

What are the 3 main layers inside Earth?

Core, Mantle, Crust

100

Which direction do magnetized objects point? (Like a compass)

North

100

Heat dries a puddle on a hot day due to

Evaporation

100

Why have we only been about to drill a tiny bit into the crust and not more?

The heat from drilling, ...pressure, money, general answers ok

200

All the Earths liquid water AND

All the Earth's Ice

Hydrosphere and Cryosphere

200

How far have we dug down into the Earth?

Only part way through the crust  (about 11 miles)

200

What is the difference between lava and magma?

Magma is molten rock underground, lava is molten rock above ground

200

How big is a Snoot?

5 foot 7

200

If the Earth's core is made of metal, and we know Iron rusts, why isn't the core rusted?

Needs oxygen and water

300


All the air / gasses around Earth

Earth's rocky body

All life on Earth

Atmosphere

Geosphere

Biosphere

300

The Earth's core is mostly made up of what two metals?

Nickel and Iron

300

As you go deeper into Earth, these two things happen

Heat and Pressure increase

300

What is something that NASA admits about its Mars pictures they have taken?

They use a filter to make it appear more red than it is

300

If 6th grade Miles was measured in Snoots, how tall is Miles

A Snoot minus a few inches / answers vary slightly

400

The two most dangerous spheres to humans, in general are.... or reworded.....the two spheres where I could put a human and they would not do well physically.

Atmosphere and Cryosphere 

400

The Lithosphere

Upper part of mantle, lower part of crust

400

How do we know that the layers are different inside the earth if we have never dug down that far?

Sonar

(Earthquake waves, other frequency waves)

400

If you dug a hole through Earth and jumped in, how long would it take you to reach the opposite side?

You wouldn't. The gravity would pull you back to the center and you would bob in the center

400

Defend the position - Earth is round / a sphere

(state reasons why someone would say the Earth is round)

Answers vary....pictures from space, the way shadows cast, etc

500

The Geosphere includes the smallest_________ to the biggest _____________

grains of sand

mountains (biggest rocks)

500

The plastic gooey layer of Earth's mantle

The Asthenosphere

500

Explain density

(you can't just use something hard as an example)

Tightly packed together

500

What does the word SCUBA stand for?

Self 

Contained

Underwater

Breathing

Apparatus 

500

Defend the position - Earth is flat

(state reasons to give why someone would say the Earth is flat)

answers vary, may include Antartica treaty, conspiracy theories, Ice wall, etc.