Thursday, April 9, 2026

Layers of the Earth & Atmosphere(2025-2026)

Vocabulary:  Crust, mantle, core, Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere

The Lithosphere is the part of the planet upon which we live.

The Atmosphere is all the air around the Earth.

Both of these "spheres" have layers.




This video gives an amazing idea of the scale of the layers of the Earth and Atmosphere.  Numbers may not exactly match those given in class.



This video gives details of each of the layers of the Earth.  It also gives more detail about the top of the Mantle and the Crust.


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