Differentiate among the characteristics of the earth's three layers SPI 0707.7.4

Links verified 12/14/2010

1. Abundances of the elements in the Earth's crust - data for students to enter into Excel.
2. Chemical Make-up of the Earth's Crust - includes a great pie chart
3. Cross-Section Globe - from Canon's Bubble Jet Printer Creative Park
4. Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics - covers the following: The Earth's Interior, The Lithosphere and Plate Tectonics, Oceanic Lithosphere, Continental Lithosphere and Plate Tectonics. [pop-ups here]
5. Earth's Interior Structure - from Explorations in Earth Science
6. The Earth's Layers - (slide show format - from Volcano World) click on the arrow (named Next) to move through the slides - move through the lessons at your own pace
7. Earth's Layers - a Quia quiz - Rags to Riches
8. Earth Like a Puzzle - learn about plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanoes at this site from Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9. Earthquake Provides Proof That Earth's Innermost Core Is Solid - A Northwestern University seismologist and a colleague at the French Atomic Energy Commission have provided the first direct evidence that - inside a liquid core - the very center of the Earth is solid. (a 1998 news story from Science Daily)
10. Earth's Structure - a ThinkQuest entry
11. Earth Structure - a Virtual Journey to the Center of the Earth
12. Earthquake: Layers of the Earth - separate layers for crust, mantle and core
13. How Many Licks Does it Take to Get to the Center - layers of the Earth
14. Image of the earth's Interior layers - labeled image from Windows to the Universe
15. Inside the Earth : Label the Inside of the Earth (from Enchanted Learning)
16. Inside the Earth - from USGS
17. Journey to the Center of Earth - a slide show on layers of the earth by Kelly Kupferschmid [this expired slide show is from the Internet Archive known as the Wayback Machine]
18. Layers of the Earth - eleven slide show using a peach as a model
19. Savage Earth - layers of the earth from PBS
20. Structure of the Earth - features a globe with a removable section
21. Surface and Interior of the Earth

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