5 Season
100 Episode
Bill Nye the Science Guy - Season 1 Episode 2 Earth's Crust (1998)
Don't just go with the flow. Settle down on the crust. Imagine a world without any crust. There would be no pies, just goopy filling, no bread, no hamburger buns, and no you or me. That's right. You, and every living thing we know of, live on or in the Earth's crust. And, living things need the Earth's crust to survive. Let's look at the science of the surface. By carefully studying the Earth's surface, scientists have discovered that the Earth is made up of gigantic layers. At the center of the Earth, there is a core – a big ball of solid metal mostly iron. The core is surrounded by a layer of liquid iron and other minerals. We usually just call it the outer core. The next layer, around the outer core is called the mantle. You may have seen a mantle above a fireplace. Well, the mantle is above the Earth's hot core places. The mantle is gooey hot nearly melted rock that flows the way asphalt does on a hot summer day. Scientists often say that the mantle is plastic. It
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Comedy, Documentary, Kids
- Studio : PBS
- Director : Bill Nye
- Cast : Bill Nye, Rachel Glenn, Jennifer Lin, Amy Broder, Ethan Ferkiss
