How Is the Earth Like an Onion?
You’ll find out in this exciting workshop filled with volcanoes, earthquakes, plate tectonics and more. Discover the forces that keep our Earth constantly changing. Students will become geology detectives as they move through interactive investigation stations packed with exciting specimens from the Museum’s geology collections. Rhode Island Rocks! (Grades 7-8): RI GSEs: ESS1(7-8)-1, ESS1(7-8)-3 The smallest state has a big past! Learn how the processes of plate tectonics, glaciers, erosion and more have shaped Rhode Island through its history. Recreate its past through geological and fossil evidence and discover some of the unique rocks and landforms that define our state.
If you cut an onion across, you’ll find a series of layers surrounding a central core. A cross-section of our planet would show a similar structure. Studies of earthquakes by geologists, scientists who study the earth, reveal that the earth is made up of three layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. The crust, the “skin” of
