Instructions: Read Kids Discover "Our Planet from Surface to Core and Answer the questions below.
Question 1
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Question 2
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Question 3
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Question 4
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Question 5
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Question 6
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Question 7
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Question 8
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In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #3: The foundation of all life, the ______________ covers nearly 70 percent of Earth’s surface. (FILL IN THE BLANK. THE ANSWER MUST BE SPELLED CORRECTLY)
Question 9
9.
In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #4 :The ____________, a layer of cool, brittle rock, is 3–30 miles thick. It forms the continents and seabeds.(FILL IN THE BLANK. THE ANSWER MUST BE SPELLED CORRECTLY)
Question 10
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Question 11
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Question 12
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In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #7: The outer _______ , a liquid, is 1,400 miles thick. (FILL IN THE BLANK. THE ANSWER MUST BE SPELLED CORRECTLY)
Question 13
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In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #8: The __________ core, a solid, is 760 miles thick. (FILL IN THE BLANK. THE ANSWER MUST BE SPELLED CORRECTLY)
Question 14
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As of 2018, there are ____________ planets in the Solar System.
6
8
7
9
Earth is the ___________ planet from the Sun and only the fifth largest overall.
second
fourth
third
In the solar system, Earth is the _____.
sixth planet from the Sun
smallest planet
the only planet known to have life
planet closest to the Sun
In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #1--- What is the name of the field that surrounds and protects earth from solar radiation?
atmosphere
magnetosphere
In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #2 the ________ is a layer of gases that gets steadily thinner the farther it is above Earth’s surface.
atmosphere
magnetosphere
exosphere
In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #2: The outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere is the exosphere.
True
False
In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #2: The _________________ holds in the Sun’s warmth, blocks much of the Sun’s incoming ultraviolet radiation, and allows living things to breathe.
exosphere
magnetosphere
atmosphere
In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #5: The __________ mantle, a layer of partially molten (melted) rock, is 415 miles thick.
lower
upper
In the interactive picture "Journey to the Center of the Earth" in #6: The __________ mantle, a solid, is 1,385 miles thick.