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Environment & Society: Geography Department Earth: The Inside Story The structure of the Earth is quite simple: we have a Laura Dubois-Pidgeon (8S) core, a mantle and a crust. A little bit like an egg. The ‘yolk’, the core, is actually metallic; it’s made of mainly iron and nickel. The outer part is liquid, and the inner part is solid. Sur- rounding the core we have The Bellfort layer is just like the shell of Josh’s masterpiece Laura’s tasty work of art the mantle which is similar to the egg white. The last an egg, which is very thin, was a delicious chocolate this is known as the crust. cake (complete with jelly lava, poppy seed ash and In geography we have been Josh Erwin (8S) chocolate popcorn pyro- examining the formations of landforms on the earth’s crust. In Year 8 we have volcano ) took two weeks to create and used a variety Korben Houston (8S) been studying volcanoes (illustrating a composite clastic bombs). and how they are formed. of materials including Ma- See some examples of our hogany, Unibond, and amazing volcano models even matchsticks for fenc- below! ing! Korben’s volcano reflected the shape of Slemish. The volcano had a light bulb inside and this was highly David Saunderson (8T) Joy Forsythe (8S) effective, glowing red as if David created a cross- Joy formed the pyroclastic it were about to erupt. sectional model complete flow in her volcano using with a central vent which lit welding rods, cotton wool, up! glue and silver spray paint. 84