Today I will learn about the interior structure of the earth

Or in other words what the earth looks like on the inside

What it would be like to journey to the center of the Earth?

What do you think it would be like?

With your group, rehearse your “part” of the earth’s interior structure

The class will form the earth’s structure and act like each of the following

1. Inner Core 2. Outer Core3. Inner Mantle 4. Outer Mantle 5. Crust

The core is the innermost layer of the Earth

Made up of two parts, inner core which is solid iron and outer core which is hot magma

The middle layer of the Earth and the thickest layer

Made up of two parts, the inner mantle and the outer mantle

Where most of the Earth’s heat is located

The top layer of the Earth and the layer we live on

Thinnest layer of the Earth

The Earth’s plates are made up of the crust

Heat from the Earth’s Core forms CONVECTION CURRENTS

These currents move the continental plates around on the earth’s surface

When plates move apart from one another, magma rises through the open space and cools forming a ridge

When plates move close together a mountain chain

A SUBDUCTION ZONE is when one plate slides below another creating a volcano on the Earth’s surface

Longitude Latitude Equator Prime Meridian Plate Plate Tectonics Pangaea

Convection Currents Subduction Zones Region Geologic Time ILLUSTRATE THE

TERMS WHERE POSSIBLE!