Player Four

Player Five YOU REACHED THE CORE OF THE EARTH! WELL DONE!

Questions. EASY.

Player Six Player One

START

Player Two

YOU REACHED THE

CORE OF THE EARTH! WELL DONE!

Questions.

HARD.

Player Three Rules

You need to roll a six to get onto the start.

Go round the board game in a clockwise direction

When you land on a question mark you must choose either an easy question or a hard question.

The winner is the first to reach the Inner Core. Question Cards

You can pick either a ‘hard’ question or an ‘easy’ question.

If you pick a ‘hard’ question: If you get the question right you go forward 2 spaces but if you get it wrong you go back 2 spaces.

If you pick an ‘easy’ question: If you get the question right you go forward 1 space but if you get it wrong you go back 1 space.

Key

A drill hole: This means you go down to the layer of the earth.

Pick up a question card.

EASY EASY EASY

What is the bit of True or False: True or False: the earth that we ‘The surface of the ‘The deeper into the stand on called? Earth is constantly Earth you go. The a) Crust. moving.’ heavier (denser) the material inside gets.’ b) Mantle. Answer: True Answer: True. c) Outer core.

d) EASY EASY EASY

True or False: What happens when Which layer of the two tectonic plates Earth is the hottest? ‘The outer core is a meet? solid.’ a) The core. a) Earthquakes. Answer: False. It is b)The Mantle. a liquid. b) Sandstorm.

c) Hurricane.

EASY EASY EASY

True or False: True or False. True or False.

‘The Inner Core is a ‘The Crust of the ‘The temperature of solid’ Earth is the thinnest the centre of the layer.’ Earth is the same as Answer: True. the surface of the Answer: True. Sun’.

Answer: True. EASY EASY EASY

How hot is the Inner ‘Is the Mantle made Which tectonic plate Core? of solid or soft do we live on? rock?’ a)1000 degrees. a) Eurasian Plate. Answer: Solid. b)4000 degrees. b) Nazca Plate. c)50 degrees. c) Cocos Plate.

EASY EASY EASY

What evidence How many years ago True or False: supports tectonic did the Earth look Africa and South plate theory? like Pangaea? America used to be a) Fossil records. a) 220million. joined together? b) Rock patterns. b) 1million. Answer: True. c) Both. c) 50million.

EASY EASY EASY

Alfred Wegener was Finish this sentence… Pangaea is what: of which Nationality? ‘The continents fit a) A small continent. a) British. together like…..’ b) A supercontinent. b) French a) A puzzle. c) A continent. c) German. b) They don’t fit.

HARD HARD HARD

What are the four Name one of the two Fill in the gap. The different layers of main rock types that crust moves because the Earth? In order the crust is made of. of ……………….. from outer to inner. currents in the Answer: Either Basalt Mantle. Answer: Crust, or Granite. Mantle, Outer Core, Answer: Convection Inner Core. currents.

HARD HARD HARD

What is the Earth’s Which mountain range What is the name of Inner Core made of? formed when the the single land Indian plate crashed continent on Earth Answer: Iron and into the Eurasian 220 million years Nickel. plate? Hint: Begins ago? with H. Answer: Pangaea. Answer: Himalayas.

HARD HARD: When was HARD ‘plate tectonic theory’ What is the mantle Which of the four generally accepted by made of? layers of the Earth is scientists? the thickest? Answer: Magma. a)1990’s Answer: The Mantle. b)2000’s

c) 1950’s HARD HARD HARD

What are the jigsaw How old is the Earth How many miles is it like pieces that make in years? to the centre of the up the Earth’s Crust Earth? a) 120 million. called? a) 300 miles. b) 4.5 billion. Answer: Tectonic b) 600 miles. Plates. c) 2 million. c) 4000 miles.

HARD HARD HARD

In which Earth time The crust is how What is the name of Period did the Earth many miles thick? the scientist who look like Pangaea? founded plate a) 3-60 miles. tectonic theory? a) Triassic. b) 100-200 miles. Answer: Alfred b) Permian. c) 2-5 miles. Wegener. c) Jurassic.

HARD HARD:What is the HARD deepest scientists What is the Earth’s The country Brazil is have ever drilled into Outer Core made of? on which plate? the Earth? Answer: Iron and a)Indian Plate. a)7.6miles. Nickel. b)Eurasian Plate. b)100 miles. c) South-American c)1,000 miles. Plate.