Layer of interior Earth Thickness Composition Solid or Liquid
Crust

Mantle

Outer Core

Inner Core


Complete the following questions using complete sentences and text evidence from the book
Figure 3 – page 205 The deeper that the swimmer goes, the greater the pressure on the swimmer from the surrounding water.
1. Compare and contrast – How is the water in the swimming pool similar to Earth’s interior? How is it different?
(Hint: Consider both temperature and pressure in your answer.)
The deeper you go the greater the pressure above you.
In the pool, the deeper you go the cooler its gets, inside the earth the deeper you go the hotter it gets. (temperature increases)

2. At what location in the pool would the water pressure be the greatest?
At the bottom of the pool.

3. How can iron filings provide evidence that a bar magnet has a magnetic field? (page 209)


4. What three processes or forces combine to set convection currents in motion? (last paragraph, page 210)
a.
b.
c.
5. Where do convection currents occur? (page 211)

6. How does convection cause movement of material and energy in Earth’s interior? (page 211)