Super Turbo Mega Double Double Extra Credit: The Earth’s total diameter is 12700 kilometers, with the solidified, ocean-covered
crust that is at its thickest 35 kilometers wide. These massive sizes and the difference between them may be hard to imagine, so scale-model globes of the Earth shrink our tremendous planet down to a more manageable size. If the Earth’s diameter was shrunken to the size of a basketball (24.2 centimeters across), how thick would the Earth’s crust be in this model Earth, in centimeters?
