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CHANGES OF EARTH’S

INTERNAL STRUCTURE
QUARTER 1- MODULE 2
LESSON 1:
EARTH’S INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND ACTIVE
VOLCANOES
EARTH CRUST
TWO KINDS OF CRUST:
1. CONTINENTAL CRUST
• THE CONTINENTAL CRUST IS THE LAYER OF GRANITIC, SEDIMENTARY, AND
METAMORPHIC ROCKS, WHICH FORM THE CONTINENTS AND THE AREAS OF
SHALLOW SEABED CLOSE TO THEIR SHORES.
2. OCEANIC CRUST
EARTH MANTLE
MANTLE CONVECTION
EARTH CORE
EARTH'S LAYER'S NAMES ARE: CRUST:
THE OUTER LAYER OF ROCK ON WHICH HUMANS AND ANIMALS LIVE AND PLANTS GROW. MANTLE: A SEMI-SOLID MAGMA
LAYER CONSISTING OF IRON, MAGNESIUM, AND SILICON. CORE: CENTRALLY LOCATED SOLID MASS OF METAL (INNER CORE) AND
A LIQUID MASS OF IRON AND NICKEL (OUTER CORE).
PACIFIC RING OF FIRE

• THE PHILIPPINES, LOCATED IN THE PACIFIC RING OF FIRE, IS ONE OF THE


MOST DISASTER-PRONE COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. PROJECT TRANSFORM,
LED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES,
UNITES GOVERNMENT, ACADEME, PRIVATE SECTOR, AND CIVIL SOCIETY TO
ENHANCE RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY NATIONWIDE.
WHAT IS A VOLCANO THAT IS ACTIVE

• AN ACTIVE VOLCANO IS A VOLCANO THAT HAS


ERUPTED DURING THE HOLOCENE (THE
CURRENT GEOLOGIC EPOCH THAT BEGAN
APPROXIMATELY 11,700 YEARS AGO), IS
CURRENTLY ERUPTING, OR HAS THE POTENTIAL
TO ERUPT IN THE FUTURE. A VOLCANO THAT IS
NOT CURRENTLY ERUPTING BUT COULD ERUPT
ACTIVE VOLCANOES

• THERE ARE ABOUT 1,350 POTENTIALLY ACTIVE


VOLCANOES WORLDWIDE, ASIDE FROM THE
CONTINUOUS BELTS OF VOLCANOES ON THE
OCEAN FLOOR AT SPREADING CENTERS LIKE
THE ..
• KĪLAUEA IS AN ACTIVE SHIELD VOLCANO IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. IT IS
LOCATED ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERN SHORE OF HAWAII ISLAND. THE
VOLCANO IS BETWEEN 210,000 AND 280,000 YEARS OLD AND GREW ABOVE SEA
LEVEL ABOUT 100,000 YEARS AGO.
• TAAL VOLCANO IS A LARGE CALDERA FILLED BY TAAL LAKE IN THE
PHILIPPINES. LOCATED IN THE PROVINCE OF BATANGAS ABOUT 50
KILOMETERS SOUTH OF MANILA, THE VOLCANO IS THE SECOND MOST
ACTIVE VOLCANO IN THE PHILIPPINES.
EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER

The epicenter (/ˈɛpɪˌsɛntər/), epicentre, or


epicentrum in seismology is the point on the
Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or
focus, the point where an earthquake or an
underground explosion originates.

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