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Earth’s Guided Reading pp. 1624
1. Where and when did the island of Surtsey emerge from the ocean?
2. What do geologists do?
3. What is the science of geology and when did it begin?
4. What are the two forces that change the surface of the Earth and what does each do?
5. What are three facts about the Earth that geologists knew two hundred years ago?
6. What are a couple of questions that geologists have been trying to answer?
7. How deep is the deepest mine in the world, and how does that compare to the depth of the
Earth?
8. What do geologists use to study the inside of the Earth when they can’t actually see it?
9. What happens to the temperature as you go down farther into the Earth and at what rate?
10. What happens to pressure as you descend?
11. What are the three main layers of the Earth?
12. Where is the crust the thickest and where is it the thinnest?
What is the range for thickness?
13. What kind of rock makes up the oceanic crust?
How about the continental crust?
14. Which of the two rocks mentioned above is the densest?
15. What are the two divisions of the mantle?
16. What makes up the lithosphere?
17. What is the asthenosphere like?
18. How thick is the mantle?
19. What are the two parts of the core?
20. What is the main difference between the outer core and the inner core?
These questions are from the diagram on page 22.
21. What are the 8 elements that make up the crust?
22. How hot is the core and what elements make it up?
23. What elements make up the mantle?