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    Restless Earth

    Learning Objectives
    • To understand the Earth’s structure

    • To know about the plates that make up the surface of the Earth
    How old is the Earth?

    The Earth is…

    2 million years old 100 million years old


    30 million years old 4600 million years old
    The layers of the Earth
    The layers of the Earth
    The core
    • The core is mainly made up of
    iron, mixed with a little nickel.
    •The temperature is 5500oC in the
    middle of the core
    •The outer core is liquid and is 2220
    km thick
    •The inner core is solid and is
    1260km thick
    The layers of the Earth
    The mantle
    • The mantle forms about half of the
    Earth
    • It is made of heavier rock
    • The top of the mantle is hard but
    the rock underneath is hot and soft
    like soft toffee.
    • It is 2900km thick and the temper-
    ature ranges from 500-900oC
    The layers of the Earth
    The crust
    • The crust is the layer you live on.
    •It is a thin layer of rock around the
    Earth
    •There are two types of crust:
    1. Continental crust (where
    there is land) which is 30km
    thick
    2. Oceanic crust (under the sea)
    which is 5km thick
    Plate tectonics
    The structure of the Earth is like an egg:

    The Core

    Mantle

    Earth’s Crust – which is made


    up of pieces called tectonic
    plates
    Plate tectonics

    The Earth’s surface is made up of pieces called tectonic plates.


    Plates are slabs of the lithosphere – Earth’s crust and upper
    mantle
    They move because they are dragged along by the powerful
    convection currents in the soft hot rock in the mantle.

    Plate Plate

    Mantle Mantle

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