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What's Inside the Earth?

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In this earth's composition worksheet, learners read about the layers within the earth and they answer 3 multiple choice questions. They color a diagram of the earth's core using different colors to represent the solid metal, the liquid metal, the hot solid, the slush and the crust.

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sound waves, sound, the earth's crust, the earth's layers, metals, the earth

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crust, earth, metal, sound waves, science
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7th - 8th
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Science
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