Warm-Up Questions
Week of September 28-October 2
Monday
Warm Up Questions
September 28
1.
What are the 4 Layers of the Earth?
2.
Explain how scientists believe the earth’s four layers were formed?

Monday:
September 28
Warm Up Questions
Answers:
1.
What are the 4 Layers of the Earth?
Answer:
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
2.
Explain how scientists believe the Earth’s four layers were formed?
Answer:
Many scientists believe that when the Earth was formed, it was a hot ball that was made of a mixture of different rock and metals. As it cooled, the heavier parts sank to the inside of the planet.

Tuesday:
September 29
Warm Up Questions
1.
What is the deepest layer of the Earth?
2.
Describe the Mantle.
3.
Why is the crust broken into plates?

Tuesday
September 29
Warm Up Questions
Answers:
1.
What is the deepest layer of the Earth?
Answer: The Inner Core
2.
Describe the Mantle.
Answer: o The mantle is 1,800 miles thick o It separates into the mantle and upper mantle at around 465 miles. o It contains very hot rock that flows under pressure.(like road tar)
3.
Why is the crust broken into plates?
Answer:
The movement of the hot mantle has broken the crust apart into large plates.

Wednesday
Warm Up Questions
September 30
1.
What is the Earth’s Magnetic Field?
2.
What causes the Earth’s Magnetic Field?
3.
What layer creates the Earth’s Magnetic
Field?

Wednesday
September 30
Answers:
1.
What is the Earth’s Magnetic Field?
Answer:
It is a magnetic field that extends from the Earth's interior to where it meets the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun.
2.
What causes the Earth’s Magnetic Field?
Answer:
Currents in the liquid outer core force the solid inner core to spin at a slightly faster rate than the spinning of the whole Earth. This movement creates the Earth’s Magnetic Field, which causes the planet to act like a giant bar magnet.
3.
Which layer creates the Earth’s Magnetic
Field?
Answer: The inner and the outer core.

Thursday
Warm Up Questions
October 1
1.
What is Geology?
2.
What is a Geologist?
3.
What does a Geologist do?
4.
Compare and Contrast the Lithosphere and the Asthenosphere.

Thursday
Warm Up Questions
Answers
1.
What is Geology?
Answer:
The study of the Earth.
2.
What is a Geologists?
Answer:
A scientist that studies the Earth.
3.
What does a Geologist do?
Answer:
Geologists are scientists that study the forces that make and shape planet Earth.

4.
Compare and Contrast the Lithosphere and the Asthenosphere?
Answer:
Lithosphere: The crust and the upper most part of the mantle together form a rigid layer called the Lithosphere.
Asthenosphere: The asthenosphere sits on top of the lithosphere. This soft layer is called the asthenosphere.

Friday
Warm Up Questions
October 2
1.
What are Constructive Forces within the
Earth’s Interior?
2.
What are Destructive Forces within the Earth’s
Interior?

Friday
Warm Up Questions
Answer:
1.
What are Constructive Forces within the
Earth’s Interior?
Answer:
Constructive forces shape the surface of the
Earth. (build up)
Example: Mountains; landmasses
2.
What are Destructive Forces within the
Earth’s Interior?
Answer:
Destructive forces are those that slowly wear away mountains and eventually, every other feature on the surface.(tears down)
Example:
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition