Earth Primer "which acquires scientific knowledge such as the structure of the earth when playing a game which raises the ground like a god of creation and creation and generates magma

Even saying the earth in a word, studying is necessary to understand the structure and properties properly. Application's "Earth Primer"It is said that it is a game that you can learn with animation that can make mountains and generate magma when tapping on the structure of the Earth that is hard to imagine only with sentences and images, so I tried it in practice.

Earth Primer
http://www.earthprimer.com/

Earth Primer does not play all contents at the start, it is becoming a game system which increases the number of new contents while playing, tap the thumbnail whose Earth is displayed at the upper left when starting up.


When you tap a thumbnail, an explanation was displayed that 4.5 billion years have passed since the earth was born and that it has continued to change its shape over a long period of time. This will be the introduction part of the game, swipe the screen from right to left after reading the text.


Next tap the icon under "Core". Commentary will be progressing from the core inside the earth to the crust, the earth's surface, etc. from the inside to the outside of the earth.


At the center of the image hits the core of the earth, when you tap the core ......


Gopogopo and magma erupted, and on the lower left, an explanation was displayed indicating that "the core of the earth is an extremely high temperature and part of the earth's energy source". It is like a textbook of the future that can not be done in general textbooks because being able to see magma coming from the core by animating with tapping.


Tap on the core to make magma Animation can be confirmed from the following movie.

Magma occurs when you tap the earth's core with the application "Earth Primer" - YouTube


Next to the core will go on to the mantle's story. Tap the icon under "Mantle".


In the chapter of the mantle, animation is used to explain how heat generated from the inner core of the core controls the flow of magma inside the mantle using the cross section of the earth. I do not understand well if you read only the sentences, but it is very convenient to see the animation and understand the magma movement inside the mantle and the influence on the surface.


You can check the animation that the magma inside the mantle produces convection on the cell by the heat of the inner nucleus from the following movie.

Study the state of the Earth's core and mantle with the application "Earth Primer" - YouTube


Next is an animation that taps the appearance of the island on the surface and reproduces it. Tap inside the earth, yellow lava occurs ... ...


Erupted from the surface of the earth and the surface was exciting. In the explanation, it is written that "magma embedded in the crust erupts magma on the cold outer shell of the earth and forms a fragile crust", so the animation is drawn as described in this explanation.


Animation that taps to create lava and create an island can be checked from the following movie.

Animation that taps with the application "Earth Primer" to create lava and generate islands - YouTube


While thinking "ho ho" and tapping it ... ...


The animation is drawn until the crust reaches the sea and forms a volcano. Even though I do not understand much about lava, magma, and crust, I am surprised that I can understand it intuitively.


This is an explanation of the plate covering the surface of the earth. Continental plates connected to the continents collide with each other ... ...


左側のプレートでは大きな山が形成されました。その地下ではぶつかったプレートがググッと沈み込んでいるのがわかります。


This is an animation explaining the hot spot where the volcanic activity of magma occurs. Hot spots are thought to be the place where a strong upward flow of the mantle called "plume" is occurring from the lower mantle, so that magma blows out to the surface and forms a volcano as you take.


After animation, I introduce Hawaiian island of Hawaiian islands as an example of hot spot. Activated volcanic activity has occurred because Hawaii island is on the hot spot, and the surrounding volcanic submarine continues to erupt still. Explaining the mechanism with animation and then explaining it using an actual example is a pretty easy to understand way.


After the interior of the earth there is a chapter on the earth's surface, but in this chapter we use a 3D simulator to explain the movement of the earth's surface. Pinch in the 3D model displayed on the right side of the screen ......


Zoom in is possible.


Swiping the screen with two fingers makes it possible to move it with grin.


For example, in a 3D simulator that explains how water flows through the surface of the earth and how it affects the ground due to the flow of water, you can actually check the change of the ground by changing the terrain yourself. Tap the lower right icon and tap the down arrow icon.


When you tap the terrain displayed in 3D, the tapped part will collapse.


When I look at the collapsed part, water flows in there ... ...


A state of the rocks being carried and accumulated from the upstream was drawn.


If you tap to dent or raise the terrain, what kind of change will occur on the surface can be understood by looking at the following movie.

Observe how the earth surface is formed by deforming the terrain with the application "Earth Primer" - YouTube


Also, tap the lower right icon and select the upward arrow icon ......


It is also possible to make the mountain by raising the ground surface. To be honest, it seems that I just forgot that it is fun and studying just to play while tapping almost without reading the explanation displayed in sentences.


Besides this, when the sea level is low ... ...


Various contents about the structure and structure of the earth are recorded such as what kind of change difference occurs on the ground surface when it is high, so you can learn happily just by tapping and grinding without knowing English It has become an application recommended not only for children but also for adults.


Earth Primer is an application dedicated to the iPad, creating an article Currently only iOS version is delivered, and the price is 1200 yen including tax.

Earth Primer on the App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/earth-primer/id956678532