MONDAY
Warm up Questions
1. What is the Earth mostly composed of?
2. What percentage of the Earth’s Surface is
Land?
3. What percentage of the Earth’s Surface is
water?
4. What best summarizes the composition of the
Earth?
MONDAY
Warm up Questions
1.What is the Earth mostly composed of?
Answer: The Earth is composed –primarily—of
rock.
2. What percentage of the Earth’s Surface is
Land?
Answer: Only about 30 % of the Earth’s Surface
is Land.
3. What percentage of the Earth’s Surface is
water?
Answer: About 70% of the Earth’s Surface is
Water.
4. What best summarizes the composition of the
Earth?
Answer: The Earth Surface contains more
water than land.
Tuesday:
Warm-Up Questions
1. What is another word used to describe the
Earth’s Atmosphere?
2. What gases make up the Earth’s Atmosphere?
3. How many layers make up the Earth’s
Atmosphere?
4. Could life on Earth exist without the Earth’s
Atmosphere?
Tuesday:
Warm-Up Activity
5. What is another word used to describe the
Earth’s Atmosphere?
Answer: Air
6. What gases make up the Earth’s Atmosphere?
Answer: 99%- Nitrogen & Oxygen
1% Mixture of Water Vapor
Argon
Carbon Dioxide
& other gases
7. How many layers make up the Earth’s
Atmosphere?
Answer: 4 Main Layers
8. Could life on Earth exist without the Earth’s
Atmosphere?
Answer: No; Animals need air to breathe. Plant
life needs gases in the air for photosynthesis.
Life on Earth could not exist without the
atmosphere.
Wednesday
Warm-Up Questions
1. What are the 4 main layers of the Earth’s
Interior?
2. What is the thickest layer of the Earth’s
Interior?
3. What is the thinnest layer of the Earth’s
Interior?
Wednesday
Warm-Up Questions
1.What are the 4 main layers of the Earth’s
Interior?
Answer: 1. Crust
2. Mantle
3. Outer Core
4. Inner Core
2. What is the thickest layer of the Earth’s Interior?
Answer: Mantle
3. What is the thinnest layer of the Earth’s
Interior?
Answer: Crust
Thursday
Warm-Up Questions
1. What are the 2 types of Crust?
2. What are 3 characteristics of the Mantle?
3. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s
Interior?
4. What is the coolest layer of the Earth’s
Interior?
Thursday
Warm-Up Questions
1. What are the 2 types of Crust?
Answer:
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
2. What are 3 characteristics of the Mantle?
The mantle is the thickest layer of the
Earth’s Interior.
The mantle is 80% of the Earth’s Volume.
The mantle is 68% of the Earth’s Mass.
The mantle is 2900 kilometers deep.
3. What is the hottest layer of the Earth’s
Interior?
Answer: Inner Core
4. What is the coolest layer of the Earth’s
Interior?
Answer: Crust
Friday
Warm-Up Questions
1. What is the Lithosphere?
2. Where is the Lithosphere Located?
3. What is the Asthenosphere?
4. Where is the Asthenosphere Located?
Friday
Warm-Up Questions
1.What is the Lithosphere?
Answer: Earth’s crust and the very top of the
mantle form the Lithosphere. The Greek prefix
litho-means “stone”. This layer is the most
rigid of all the layers.
2.Where is the Lithosphere Located?
Answer: The Lithosphere sits on top of the
asthenosphere.
3.What is the Asthenosphere?
Answer: The Asthenosphere is the hotter,
softer rock in the upper mantle.The Greek
word asthenes means “weak”.
4.Where is the Asthenosphere Located?
Answer: The Asthenosphere is located and
carries the Lithosphere on its back.