Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Earth Science - Earth Structure - The Crust

Shaping the Earth by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and William Munoz
The Earth Through Time by Harold Levin (textbook)

Vocabulary Added:
lithosphere: rock-ring; crust plus the top of the mantle
Moho: Mohorovicic discontinuity; boundary between crust and mantle

Discussion: 
Thinness of the crust relative to the rest of the innersphere
Continental crust and oceanic crust
Faults and folds

Activity:
Use blocks and origami paper to show how faults and folds form
Finish Earth's structure drawing

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