Magnetic to the Core

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1.1. What is a magnetic field? Required

The thing that makes fridge magnets stick

A force field around electric wires

The thing that makes a compass point north

All of the above

2.2. If I tell you I am a palaeomagnetist, what do you think I study? Required

Dinosaurs and fossils

The magnetic sense of birds

Earth’s magnetic field in the past

Antique compasses

3.3. Where in Earth do you think its magnetic field comes from? Required

The ocean bottom

The hot rocky mantle

The liquid outer core

The solid inner core

4.4. What creates the Earth’s magnetic field? Required

Lots of little magnets

One big magnet

Hot churning liquid iron

Rusty old lava

5.5. What does the Earth’s magnetic field NOT do? Required

Make compasses point north

Tell us about the inside of our planet

Protect satellites in space

Make volcanoes erupt