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Earth’s Water and Crust Worksheet

This worksheet for Enhanced Science 8 focuses on identifying and labeling major oceans, continents, and land masses on a map. It includes questions about the Earth's water-to-land ratio, the necessity of surface characteristics for life, and evidence from space regarding Earth's water composition. Additionally, it features exercises on distinguishing between continental and oceanic crust characteristics and assessing statements about Earth's tectonic mechanisms.

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Earth’s Water and Crust Worksheet

This worksheet for Enhanced Science 8 focuses on identifying and labeling major oceans, continents, and land masses on a map. It includes questions about the Earth's water-to-land ratio, the necessity of surface characteristics for life, and evidence from space regarding Earth's water composition. Additionally, it features exercises on distinguishing between continental and oceanic crust characteristics and assessing statements about Earth's tectonic mechanisms.

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ENHANCED SCIENCE 8

Quarter 3- Worksheet #1

Name: _____________________ Section: _________ Date: ________ Score:


Parent’s Signature: ______________________

Instructions: Identify and label on the map the major oceans and other bodies of water,
as well as the major continents and land masses. Use blue color pen for bodies of water
and red color for landmasses.

Questions:
1. Why do you think there is more water on Earth than on land?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
2. Do you think that specific surface characteristics are necessary for life to exist on
Earth?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
3. What is the approximate percentage of land to water on the surface of the Earth?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

4. What evidence do you have from space to support your theory that Earth is mostly
made of water rather than land?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

B. Directions: Below are characteristics of the two types of crust. Write CC if it is for
continental crust and OC if it is oceanic crust.
______ 1. It is the layer of granitic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks which form the
continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores.
______ 2. It is denser but thinner.
______ 3. It is about 60 km (37 miles) thick.
______ 4. It is less dense than the material of the Earth’s mantle and thus “floats” on top
of it.
______ 5. This is where mountains, volcanic arcs, hills are found and located.

C. Directions: Read each statement below. Determine if it is a correct description of


Earth’s mechanisms/anatomy. Write YES if the statement is correct and NO if it does not
correct.
_____ 1. Plates are constantly moving.
_____ 2. Lithospheric (tectonic) plates are the rigid, solid, outermost part of the
earth including the crust and the upper mantle that move as a unit.
_____ 3. Plates move in one direction.
_____ 4. The inner mantle spins over the outer core and generates magnetic field.
_____ 5. Tectonic plates are able to move because the Earth’s lithosphere has
greater strength than the underlying asthenosphere.
_____ 6. The Earth’s core provides the source of the heat energy needed to form
convection currents in the outer core and mantle.
_____ 7. The lithosphere is broken up into tectonic plates.

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