Nancy Barnes

Have you tried to dig a deep hole? So deep that you could dig all the way to the other side of the Earth? It’s pretty hard, and lots of people have tried. So what’s stopping us from digging through the Earth? It has something to do with layers and a lot of heat!

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SOURCES:

www.colorado.edu/physics/phys2900/homepages/Marianne.Hogan/inside.html

pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/inside.html

science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/inside-the-earth/

www.ngkids.co.uk/science-and-nature/structure-of-the-earth

Images:

Cracked Ground: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crack_in_the_ground_caused_by_the_earthquake,Kogaishima,Katori-city,Japan.jpg

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roaddamage59quake.JPG

Borehole: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0.jpg