Structure of the Earth

Understand the structure of the Earth, types of plate boundaries and explain why earthquakes
and volcanoes occur in certain locations
Watch the trailer to Ice Age 4 and
answer the following questions:

 Name the layers that make up

the earth.
 What was the ancient Greek
word given to the
supercontinent?
 Name 4 countries that are shown
in the clip.
 Name 2 continents shown in the
clip.
 About how many million years
ago did the continents start to
drift apart?
Ice Age Continental Drift
 Crust, upper / lower
mantle, outer / inner core
 Pangea
 Italy, Spain, England,
USA, Egypt, Australia
 Africa, South America,
North America, Europe
 150 Million Years ago
Structure of the Earth

Watch the video and try to get as much

information as you can about each of the layers.
Try to get:
 Size / Thickness
 What it is made of
 What it is like (solid/liquid? Temperature? Any
other interesting fact)

Structure of the earth

Structure of the Earth

Task 1: Diagrams
Draw your own diagram of the structure of the
earth. Label all the main parts.

Task 2: Describing in detail

Use your diagram and the key vocabulary that you
learned from the video to write a detailed
description of the structure of the Earth.
Why do we need to understand the
structure of the Earth and what does it
have to do with our current topic?
What do you remember about plate boundaries? What happens at each
boundary? Where would you find volcanoes or earthquakes and why?

Plate boundaries
Hotspots
Hotspots
Cut out the boundaries on your worksheet, glue them in your book and then
label them. Describe and explain what happens on each plate boundary.
Explain the link between plate boundaries and the global distribution of volcanoes & earthquakes
Homework
On your world map, label the tectonic plates.

Add arrows to show their direction of

movement.

Draw in earthquake locations and add locations

of volcanoes.
Major & minor tectonic plates