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

Links verified on 4/29/2024

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'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. Earth: Layer by Layer - from Science News
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. Earth's Layers - a Quia quiz - Rags to Riches
9. Earth’s Layers: Crust, Mantle, and Core - explanation followed by a quiz
10. 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)
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. Image of the earth's Interior layers - labeled image from Windows to the Universe
14. Inside the Earth : Label the Inside of the Earth (from Enchanted Learning)
15. Inside the Earth - from USGS
16. Journey to the Center of Earth - a slide show on layers of the earth by Kelly Kupferschmid 
17. Layers of the Earth - a quiz posted by Florida International University
18. Savage Earth - layers of the earth from PBS
19. Structure of the Earth - features a globe with a removable section

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