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Figure 2.2. Structure of the Earth

Task 3. Answer the questions, using the active vocabulary.
1. Is the Earth in a perfect circular shape?

2. What convinced scientists that the Earth was very old?
3. What happened with particles swirling through empty space of

the Solar System?
4. How was the Earth’s crust formed?
5. What was the Earth like for ancient people?

Task 4. Define whether the following statements are true or
false. Correct the false ones according to the text.

1. The Earth is very large and diverse planet.

2. The Earth is flattened at the poles.
3. Plants and animals convinced scientists that the Earth was very
old.
4. Most of people believed that about one hundred billion years

ago the Earth, the Sun, and all the planets of the Solar System were
nothing but a cloud of cold dust particles swirling through empty
space.

5. Four or five billion years ago, such planets as the Earth, Mars,
Venus, and other were formed.
6. The Earth's magnetic field formed first.
7. People in ancient times also believed that the Earth was round

and stood still.

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