Earth’s History WebQuest
(all work will go in your notebook)
Rock Cycle
Go to Brainpop and watch the video on the rock cycle. Take the Classic Quiz (not the
review quiz). Write your score here: ***_________***
Log in : Alexmid Password: brainpop
Complete the rest of the work on page 36 in your notebook, not on this handout.
Layers of the Earth
Go to: introduction to layers of the earth and answer the following questions as you watch.
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What is the Earth’s diameter?
Which layer is considered a “solid metal ball” and where is it located?
What is the outer core made of?
Which layer is mostly solid rock?
Describe the crust.
Go to: interactive earth and answer the following questions:
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Click on the inner core. What is the diameter of the inner core?
Which two elements make up most of the inner core?
Click on the outer core. Is the outer core liquid or solid?
What is the diameter of the outer core?
10. Click on the mantle. How many regions of the mantle are there?
11. What is the mantle made of?
12. Click on the crust. List 2 important facts about it.
13. What is the relationship between the asthenosphere and the lithosphere?
14. Sketch the layers of the Earth.
Include the following in your sketch:
Inner Core
Outer Core
Mantle
Crust
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Have a listen  Layers of the Earth Video/Song
Convection
Click on Convection Video and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the motion of hot and cool magma in the mantle.
2. How does the motion of hot and cool magma affect the Earth,
specifically the continents?
Click on convection in the dictionary. Use the physics definition
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Define convection.
Plate Tectonics
Click on plate tectonics. Once you are there, click on the picture that looks
like Earth today and then the how do we know this? link. Answer the following
questions:
1. Who is Alfred Wegner and what did he do?
2. What does “Pangea” mean in Greek?
3. Draw a picture definition of the plate tectonics theory.
Plate Tectonics Theory