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Name:_____________________ Hour: ______
Inside Our Earth
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__________________ is the study of planet Earth, and
_______________________________________________
Ex:__________,___________,__________, ___________,__________
 __________________ are scientists that study the inside of the Earth.
Layers of the Earth:
1.) The ___________ is a _______ layer of _______
 The crust is between ______________ kilometer’s thick.
 Thickest ______________
 Thinnest _______________
2.) The ______________ is another layer of ______, but its very ________!
It has three layers within it:
a. Layer 1= _________________________________
b. Layer 2 - _________________________________
c. Layer 3 = ________________________________
3.) _________________ a layer of ______________ metals:
 Examples)__________________, __________________
 _________________ a layer of ___________ metals.
It’s solid because _____________________________!
__________________ is the__________ and ________________ of the Mantle.
 __________________ is the ____________ part of the mantle, or __________
 This layer is ___________, which causes it to be ___________.
 _____________ is found here.
Name:________________
Continental Drift
 In 1910, _________________ made a hypothesis that Earth’s crust
slowly drifts atop a liquid core.
o He called it _________________________
 He also hypothesized that all the
continents had once been connected in
a single landmass.
o He called it, ________________,
or “all lands”.
Fossil Evidence:
Landform Evidence:
Climate Evidence:
Why didn’t geologist accept his theory? ___________________________
REVIEW:
How do we know about the layers?
_________________: create seismic waves. They ______________, or bend when
they travel through_____________________________inside the planet.