This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for an earth science unit on the earth's interior. Review questions are included at the bottom of the study guide.

Interactive site provides information on each layer of the earth. Click on a layer to discover more about it.

Players will test their knowledge of the layers of the Earth. Know terms such as core, crust, and upper and lower mantle.

Provides a discussion of the layers of the earth including the crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core.

Understand the basic structure of atoms and molecules in the Earth's crust.

This site from PBS provides a description of the mechanisms behind the plate movements, types of movements, and the resulting earthquakes, faults, and images and animations of several of the topics presented.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifies the various layers of the Earth, including the crust, mantle, core, lithosphere, and asthenosphere.

Take a look at the layers that make up our Earth: inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust. Then have fun making a model of the Earth's interior that you can eat up.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the layers of the Earth and a place near the Canary Islands where there is a hole in the crust. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The lithosphere is made of the brittle crust and uppermost mantle and lies on the plastic asthenosphere. Read about the properties of the lithosphere and asthenosphere.

Gives short descriptions of the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.

This interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey Web site helps you visualize different types of plate tectonic activity and shows the impact this activity has on Earth's surface.

Excellent Eight Planets site that provides a vast amount of information about planet Earth. Very comprehensive and complete site.

Using flubber and plastic wrap, students study the Earth's crust and mantle.

From ABC News in Science, Will Dunham's article covers research connected to the discovery of a chunk of Earth's crust found in Greenland which possibly dates over 3.8 billion years.

The Earth is at your fingertips. Simply click on the piece you are looking for and explore.

This textbook excerpt explains the concept of isostasy and the relationship of Earth's crust to the mantle beneath it. This process is compared to the effects of glaciation and describes the effect an ice sheet has on the crust, and the...

In this lesson, you will learn about how the Earth formed as well as the composition and structural layers of the Earth's interior.

Take a journey to the center of the Earth and learn about the structure, material properties, and conditions inside our planet.

A basic overview of the earth's mantle, crust, inner core, and outer core. Also discusses how earthquake waves travel through the Earth.

Purdue University provides a great lesson plan for learning about the Earth's interior structure. Focuses on the crust, mantle and core. Also includes examples and great charts that young scholars will enjoy looking at.

The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the basic elements of our Earth's crust: rocks, soils and minerals. They learn how we categorize rocks, soils and minerals and how they are literally the foundation for our...

At this site from the NASA Classroom of the Future, you can learn about the many different layers of the earth and see what the earth would look like cut in half.

Learn about the lithosphere, the different types, continental drift, and the major plates.