Download Bill Nye – Earths Crust

Bill Nye – Earths Crust!
answers
1. We live on the Earths crust? The crust of the Earth is very thin
2. We know that under the Earths crust is different from the crust itself because we
have Volcanoe!
3. Label the diagrams below
4. A Geologist who studies volcanoes is called a volcanologist
5. Mt St. Helene is a volcano. It erupted off & on between 1800- 1856. Will Mount
St. Helene erupt again?
6. There are _2 types of volcanoes. The kind that ooze and the kind that erupt!
7. Lava is driven from a volcano by the gas bubbles. To make a volcano we can add
vinegar (l) +baking soda (s) = carbon dioxide (g)
8. Under the Earths crust we have the mantle. It’s made of magma which is very
very HOT
9. A Geyser is similar to a volcano. When it erupts hot water and steam come out.
When the pressure builds it forces the hot water and steam out of the ground.
10. The Earths crust is formed of Tectonic Plates
11. What is Pangea? Super continent. How do we know? Puzzle pieces
12. Where the plates are spreading we have volcanoes.
13. Where the plates come together we have mountains.
14. Earthquakes are caused by the shifting Tectonic Plates.
15. Seismographs are used by geologist to measure Earthquakes.
16. Are the plates done moving? No way, dynamic earth!