Earth's Geosphere
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Earth's Geosphere
The geosphere encompasses Earth's crust—the solid surfaces where mountains and beaches are located—and extends deeper to include the mantle, liquid outer core, and solid inner core.
Explore Earth's geosphere
Exploring Earth's Geosphere
Let's start our exploration of the geosphere with the crust, which is Earth's solid outer layer.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's crust in the model above.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, and deserts. It's the ground that includes all the places we live and play.
Select any image to view it full screen.
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Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The ocean floor is also part of Earth's crust.
Select any part of this graphic that represents part of Earth's crust. Hint: The ocean floor is part of Earth's crust. The water is NOT.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The ocean floor is also part of Earth's crust.
You got it! The ocean floor, but not the ocean water, is part of the Earth's crust.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, deserts, and ocean floor.It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, deserts, and ocean floor.It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth.
You are correct! The rocks and the mountains are part of the Earth's crust.
Continue
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, deserts, and ocean floor.It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth.
Crust
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, deserts, and ocean floor.It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth.
Crust
You are correct. The crust is the thinnest layer of Earth's geosphere.
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Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
Earth's crust is divided into big pieces called plates. These plates move around slowly over time. Sometimes they collide, slide past each other, or spread apart, causing things like mountains, earthquakes, and new land to form.
Select a spot on the map that shows where two plates are moving apart. Hint: Look for the two yellow arrows pointing away from each other.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
Earth's crust is divided into big pieces called plates. These plates move around slowly over time. Sometimes they collide, slide past each other, or spread apart, causing things like mountains, earthquakes, and new land to form.
Awesome! Now select a spot on the map that shows where two plates are moving toward each other. Hint: Look for the two yellow arrows pointing toward each other.
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
Let's travel deeper into the geosphere to Earth's mantle to learn what causes the crustal plates to move.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's mantle in the model above.
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Select any part of the graphic that shows the hot rock of the Earth's mantle.
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Mantle
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Mantle
You are correct! The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Mantle
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Mantle
You got it! The mantle is mostly solid, like a rock. But because it's really hot, some parts of it can move slowly, almost like how syrup flows.
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Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The hot, flowing rock in Earth's mantle pushes and moves the pieces of Earth's crust, known as tectonic plates.
Select the part of the graphic that represents the hot mantle that pushes on and moves the tectonic plates.
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The hot, flowing rock in Earth's mantle can also rise to the surface and create volcanoes. When this magma reaches the surface, it becomes lava. As the lava cools, it hardens and forms new parts of the Earth's crust.
Select the volcano in the image above.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
Now let's travel even deeper into the geosphere to Earth's outer core.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's outer core in the model above.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The outer core is a layer of liquid metal beneath the Earth's mantle. As it moves, it generates Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from solar radiation.
Select any part of the graphic that shows the liquid metal that makes up Earth's outer core.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The outer core is a layer of liquid metal beneath the Earth's mantle. As it moves, it generates Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from solar radiation.
Outer Core
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The outer core is a layer of liquid metal beneath the Earth's mantle. As it moves, it generates Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from solar radiation.
Outer Core
Correct! The Earth's outer core is not solid, it is liquid metal that moves!
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The liquid metal in Earth's outer core moves around and creates a magnetic field, making Earth like a big magnet. This magnetic field helps protect us from the sun's harmful rays. Without it, Earth would have too much radiation for life to survive.
Select any part of the graphic that represents the magnetic field created by the moving metal within Earth's outer core.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The liquid metal in Earth's outer core moves around and creates a magnetic field, making Earth like a big magnet. This magnetic field helps protect us from the sun's harmful rays. Without it, Earth would have too much radiation for life to survive.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The outer core is a layer of liquid metal beneath the Earth's mantle. As it moves, it generates Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from solar radiation.
Outer Core
Correct! The moving metal in Earth's outer core creates a magnetic field.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Inner Core
Finally, let's journey to the very center of the Earth, where we find the inner core.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's inner core in the model above.
Earth's Geosphere: The INNER Core
The inner core is at Earth's center, where it's as hot as the sun's surface and stays solid because of extreme pressure.
Select the part of the graphic that shows the solid metal that makes up the Earth's inner core.
Earth's Geosphere: The INNER Core
The inner core is at Earth's center, where it's as hot as the sun's surface and stays solid because of extreme pressure.
Inner Core
Earth's Geosphere: The INNER Core
The inner core is at Earth's center, where it's as hot as the sun's surface and stays solid because of extreme pressure.
Inner Core
That's correct! Despite having a temperature as high as the sun's surface, the inner core remains solid due to the immense pressure it is under.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: Review
Correctly label the layers that make up the Earth's Geosphere to receive the code word you need to continue.
Enter code word.
Enter the code word obtained by correctly labeling the Earth's layers.
lowercase letters only
Earth's Geosphere: Review
That's right! Mountains, dirt and soil, volcanoes, and even the inner layers of the Earth all make up the Earth's geosphere.
The ocean and clouds are parts of Earth's hydrosphere and the air is part of Earth's atmosphere.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: Review
The geosphere starts with the crust, the solid outer shell of Earth. It's where all the mountains, rocks, and ocean floors are located — it's the ground we walk and live on.
Below the crust is the mantle, a thick layer made of semi-solid rock that can slowly flow. This movement in the mantle is what causes continents to drift and earthquakes to happen.
Deeper still, we find the outer core, which is unique because it’s made of liquid metal, mostly iron and nickel, swirling around. This liquid layer helps create Earth's magnetic field.
At the very center is the inner core, a hot, dense ball of solid metal, also made mostly of iron and nickel, despite the intense heat at Earth’s deepest point.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's crust in the model above.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
You are correct! The ocean floor is part of the Earth's crust.
Yes! The ocean floor is part of Earth's crust.
Continue
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
Below the crust is the mantle, which is much thicker and made of rock that is so hot it can flow slowly. This flowing rock moves the tectonic plates above it, shaping the Earth’s surface. The mantle goes down about 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Outer Core
Select the Earth's mantle in the model above.
The hydrosphere includes all the water on Earth, from the vast oceans and seas to the smallest ponds and streams. It covers the surface with lakes, rivers, and glaciers, and extends underground as groundwater in aquifers. The hydrosphere interacts with the atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere, playing a critical role in Earth's climate and supporting all forms of life.
Insert a game here that helps students identify what is and is NOT part of the hydrosphere.
Go through each of the layers of the earth and then a drag and drop game to label each layer.
Insert a game here that highlights the features of the mantle
The layers of the Earth- Mantle
Insert a game here that highlights the features of the mantle
Exploring Earth
The Geosphere
Layers of the Earth
What is the Geosphere?
Plate Tectonics and Earth's Surface
Biosphere
Earth Science
Earth's Spheres
Layers of the Earth
What is the geosphere?
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Next Generation Science Standard 5-ESS-2.1
Exploring Earth
Earth's Geosphere
Earth's Crust
What is the geosphere?
Earth's Mantle
Earth's Outer and Inner Cores
Earth Science
Earth's Spheres
Hydrosphere
Geosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Next Generation Science Standard 5-ESS-2.1
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The solid ocean floor is part of Earth's crust. The water and sky are not part of the crust.
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Earth's Geosphere
Select the button below to enter the password provided on the "Exploring Earth's Geosphere" worksheet.
Please be sure to use only lowercase letters when you enter the password.
Begin
Earth's Geosphere
The geosphere encompasses Earth's crust—the solid surfaces where mountains and beaches are located—and extends deeper to include the mantle, liquid outer core, and solid inner core.
Explore Earth's geosphere
Exploring Earth's Geosphere
Let's start our exploration of the geosphere with the crust, which is Earth's solid outer layer.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's crust in the model above.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, and deserts. It's the ground that includes all the places we live and play.
Select any image to view it full screen.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The ocean floor is also part of Earth's crust.
Select any part of this graphic that represents part of Earth's crust. Hint: The ocean floor is part of Earth's crust. The water is NOT.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The ocean floor is also part of Earth's crust.
You got it! The ocean floor, but not the ocean water, is part of the Earth's crust.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, deserts, and ocean floor.It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, deserts, and ocean floor.It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth.
You are correct! The rocks and the mountains are part of the Earth's crust.
Continue
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, deserts, and ocean floor.It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth.
Crust
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
The crust is the solid outer layer of Earth where we find mountains, valleys, beaches, deserts, and ocean floor.It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth.
Crust
You are correct. The crust is the thinnest layer of Earth's geosphere.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
Earth's crust is divided into big pieces called plates. These plates move around slowly over time. Sometimes they collide, slide past each other, or spread apart, causing things like mountains, earthquakes, and new land to form.
Select a spot on the map that shows where two plates are moving apart. Hint: Look for the two yellow arrows pointing away from each other.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
Earth's Geosphere: The Crust
Earth's crust is divided into big pieces called plates. These plates move around slowly over time. Sometimes they collide, slide past each other, or spread apart, causing things like mountains, earthquakes, and new land to form.
Awesome! Now select a spot on the map that shows where two plates are moving toward each other. Hint: Look for the two yellow arrows pointing toward each other.
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
Let's travel deeper into the geosphere to Earth's mantle to learn what causes the crustal plates to move.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's mantle in the model above.
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Select any part of the graphic that shows the hot rock of the Earth's mantle.
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Mantle
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Mantle
You are correct! The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Mantle
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The mantle is the thickest layer of Earth and is mostly solid rock. However, in some areas where it's very hot, the rock can slowly flow, moving the Earth's plates. This movement can cause earthquakes, form mountains, and create volcanoes on the Earth's crust.
Mantle
You got it! The mantle is mostly solid, like a rock. But because it's really hot, some parts of it can move slowly, almost like how syrup flows.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The hot, flowing rock in Earth's mantle pushes and moves the pieces of Earth's crust, known as tectonic plates.
Select the part of the graphic that represents the hot mantle that pushes on and moves the tectonic plates.
Earth's Geosphere: The Mantle
The hot, flowing rock in Earth's mantle can also rise to the surface and create volcanoes. When this magma reaches the surface, it becomes lava. As the lava cools, it hardens and forms new parts of the Earth's crust.
Select the volcano in the image above.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
Now let's travel even deeper into the geosphere to Earth's outer core.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's outer core in the model above.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The outer core is a layer of liquid metal beneath the Earth's mantle. As it moves, it generates Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from solar radiation.
Select any part of the graphic that shows the liquid metal that makes up Earth's outer core.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The outer core is a layer of liquid metal beneath the Earth's mantle. As it moves, it generates Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from solar radiation.
Outer Core
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The outer core is a layer of liquid metal beneath the Earth's mantle. As it moves, it generates Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from solar radiation.
Outer Core
Correct! The Earth's outer core is not solid, it is liquid metal that moves!
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The liquid metal in Earth's outer core moves around and creates a magnetic field, making Earth like a big magnet. This magnetic field helps protect us from the sun's harmful rays. Without it, Earth would have too much radiation for life to survive.
Select any part of the graphic that represents the magnetic field created by the moving metal within Earth's outer core.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The liquid metal in Earth's outer core moves around and creates a magnetic field, making Earth like a big magnet. This magnetic field helps protect us from the sun's harmful rays. Without it, Earth would have too much radiation for life to survive.
Earth's Geosphere: The Outer Core
The outer core is a layer of liquid metal beneath the Earth's mantle. As it moves, it generates Earth's magnetic field, which protects us from solar radiation.
Outer Core
Correct! The moving metal in Earth's outer core creates a magnetic field.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: The Inner Core
Finally, let's journey to the very center of the Earth, where we find the inner core.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's inner core in the model above.
Earth's Geosphere: The INNER Core
The inner core is at Earth's center, where it's as hot as the sun's surface and stays solid because of extreme pressure.
Select the part of the graphic that shows the solid metal that makes up the Earth's inner core.
Earth's Geosphere: The INNER Core
The inner core is at Earth's center, where it's as hot as the sun's surface and stays solid because of extreme pressure.
Inner Core
Earth's Geosphere: The INNER Core
The inner core is at Earth's center, where it's as hot as the sun's surface and stays solid because of extreme pressure.
Inner Core
That's correct! Despite having a temperature as high as the sun's surface, the inner core remains solid due to the immense pressure it is under.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: Review
Correctly label the layers that make up the Earth's Geosphere to receive the code word you need to continue.
Enter code word.
Enter the code word obtained by correctly labeling the Earth's layers.
lowercase letters only
Earth's Geosphere: Review
That's right! Mountains, dirt and soil, volcanoes, and even the inner layers of the Earth all make up the Earth's geosphere.
The ocean and clouds are parts of Earth's hydrosphere and the air is part of Earth's atmosphere.
Continue
Earth's Geosphere: Review
The geosphere starts with the crust, the solid outer shell of Earth. It's where all the mountains, rocks, and ocean floors are located — it's the ground we walk and live on. Below the crust is the mantle, a thick layer made of semi-solid rock that can slowly flow. This movement in the mantle is what causes continents to drift and earthquakes to happen. Deeper still, we find the outer core, which is unique because it’s made of liquid metal, mostly iron and nickel, swirling around. This liquid layer helps create Earth's magnetic field. At the very center is the inner core, a hot, dense ball of solid metal, also made mostly of iron and nickel, despite the intense heat at Earth’s deepest point.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Inner Core
Select the Earth's crust in the model above.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
You are correct! The ocean floor is part of the Earth's crust.
Yes! The ocean floor is part of Earth's crust.
Continue
The top layer of Earth's geosphere is the crust. This is where we live and where all plants and animals are found. It's made up of rocks and minerals and is the thinnest layer of Earth. The crust includes both the land we walk on and the ocean floor.
Below the crust is the mantle, which is much thicker and made of rock that is so hot it can flow slowly. This flowing rock moves the tectonic plates above it, shaping the Earth’s surface. The mantle goes down about 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface.
Crust
Mantle
Outer Core
Outer Core
Select the Earth's mantle in the model above.
The hydrosphere includes all the water on Earth, from the vast oceans and seas to the smallest ponds and streams. It covers the surface with lakes, rivers, and glaciers, and extends underground as groundwater in aquifers. The hydrosphere interacts with the atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere, playing a critical role in Earth's climate and supporting all forms of life.
Insert a game here that helps students identify what is and is NOT part of the hydrosphere.
Go through each of the layers of the earth and then a drag and drop game to label each layer.
Insert a game here that highlights the features of the mantle
The layers of the Earth- Mantle
Insert a game here that highlights the features of the mantle
Exploring Earth
The Geosphere
Layers of the Earth
What is the Geosphere?
Plate Tectonics and Earth's Surface
Biosphere
Earth Science
Earth's Spheres
Layers of the Earth
What is the geosphere?
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Next Generation Science Standard 5-ESS-2.1
Exploring Earth
Earth's Geosphere
Earth's Crust
What is the geosphere?
Earth's Mantle
Earth's Outer and Inner Cores
Earth Science
Earth's Spheres
Hydrosphere
Geosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Next Generation Science Standard 5-ESS-2.1
Try again.
The solid ocean floor is part of Earth's crust. The water and sky are not part of the crust.