Layers of the Earth and its Atmosphere Homework

Here is the homework assignment due Thursday. You may work in partners, but make sure each person is doing equal amounts of work.

Imagine you are coming from outerspace into the earth’s core, or vice versa, from the inner core to outerspace. Describe your journey using the following key vocabulary words and underline them in your story. Describe in detail what you see in your journey (example: When traveling through the mesosphere, we were almost scorched by a meteor burning up. Good thing we were wearing our protective space suits!)

Magnetosphere

Inner Core

Troposphere

Exosphere

Mantle

Biosphere

Outer Core

Upper Mantle

Hydrosphere

Cryosphere

Stratosphere

Mesosphere

Crust

Geosphere

Thermosphere

Bonus: illustrations

Super Bonus: colored illustrations