Recognize that the earth's layers have different thickness, states of matter, densities, and chemical makeup 0707.7.4

Links verified on 5/4/2024

1. Abundances of the elements in the Earth's crust - data for students to enter into Excel.
• See a tutorial on importing data from the web into Excel
2. Chemical Make-up of the Earth's Crust - This site includes a neat looking pie chart.
3. Cross-Section Globe - from Canon's Bubble Jet Printer Creative Park
4. Earth - layer by layer
5. 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.
6. The Earth's Layers
7. 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 
8. 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)
9. Image of the earth's Interior layers - labeled image from Windows to the Universe
10. Inside the Earth - Label the Inside of the Earth (from Enchanted Learning)
11. Layers of the Earth - a quiz posted by Florida International University
12. An Overview of Earth’s Layers - (10:07) a YouTube video
13. Structure of the Earth - features a globe with a removable section

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