Determining Earth's Layered Interior—Tutorial 6/8

6min Novice

Part 6/8 Interpreting Results

In this video we introduce a second, smaller scale model of Earth to help us make sense of our results.

Tutorial to accompany the Lesson, "Determining and Measuring Earth's Layered Interior"

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