Parts of the Earth

What are the names of the layers inside the earth?  What is each layer like?  What is the difference between the crust, lithosphere and asthenoshpere?  Click on the link below and use your mouse to scroll over the parts of the earth to find out what they are and how each layer is different.


What is inside the Earth?

A New Earth?

How many of you heard about the new planet that has been discovered by NASA?  Read the following information....very interesting!!

A New Planet

What all did you learn.  There are so many facts, but summarize what they have discovered in your own words.

Lunar Eclipse

Have you ever seen an eclipse?  Read the following ...

Lunar Eclipse

When will the next eclipse occur?

Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Who first came up with the concept of Continental Drift?  What is the name of the super continent that existed over 1 million years ago?  What are convection currents and what do they have to do with Continental Drift and Plate movement?  How does convection currents cause movement in the mantle?  What is subduction?  What might crustal movements cause?  Click on the link below and then on Plate Tectonics then on Continental Drift.


Volcanoes Online

Earth's Interior

What are the three layers of the earth?  What is the lithosphere?  What is the difference between oceanic and continental crust? What is the core made of and how hot is it?  What is the mantle?  What is magma?  Click on the link below to answer these questions and tell why scientist might study earth's interior.  After you click on the link Click on Plate Tectonics and then on Earth's Interior.


Volcanoes Online

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina occurred in 2005 and most of you probably don't recall much about it because you were so young.  This hurricane caused much destruction down in New Orleans.  Watch the following video to see day by day what happened.   This is a video produced my National Geographic. Some of you may find this a bit too much to watch.  You may turn away at any time.  Watch it and tell me what you think.


hurricane day by day

Plate Tectonics

Next week we will begin our unit on Plate Tectonics.  What do you think we will be discussing in this unit?  What topics will we discuss?  What possible labs would you be interested in doing?
check out the following link to get some information!


plate tectonics

Where Shall We Build

As we come to a finish on out unit covering Erosion & Deposition, what are your thoughts on where Boomtown should build their new hotels, houses and shopping?  You have had a chance to examine various soil types found in the area, you have seen how the land has changed over the past 100 years, and you have looked at specific areas in Boomtown and how erosion has affected each one.  With all of this information, which area would you chose to build:  the seaside cliff, the green hill, or the marsh?  Explain why you chose where you chose.