Earth and space

How our planet works, from its core and moving plates to the air above us and the Sun's effects on it.

3 articles

Earth and space · Ages 10–14Why we have seasons, eclipses and tidesHow the Sun, Earth and Moon cause three effects: the tilt behind the seasons, why eclipses need a straight line, and what makes spring and neap tides.Earth and space · Ages 11–14The layers of the atmosphere, from the weather to the edge of spaceWhat air is made of, the five layers of the atmosphere and why temperature rises and falls between them, where the ozone layer sits, and where space begins.Earth and space · KS3 and GCSEInside the Earth, from the crust to the core, and how plates moveThe Earth's layers, how tectonic plates move, Wegener's evidence for continental drift and what happens at each type of plate boundary, with KS3 maths.