Earth's Interior
Vocabulary
Characteristics of the Earth's Layers
100
The three main layers of the Earth
What is the crust, mantle, and the core?
100
The outer layer of the Earth
What is Crust?
100
Forms the continents
What is the Continental Crust?
200
The crust that lies beneath the ocean
What is Oceanic Crust?
200
Energy that is transmitted in the form of rays, waves, or particles
What is Radiation?
200
Uppermost, brittle rock layer of the Earth's Interior
What is the Lithosphere?
300
The composition of the crust can be either
What are Basalt and Granite rocks?
300
The amount per unit size
What is Density?
300
One is made of solid metal and the other is made of molten metal
What is the inner and outer core?
400
The 3 parts of the mantle
What is the Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, and Mesosphere?
400
The force applied to a unit area of surface
What is pressure?
400
Hot but more rigid layer
What is the Mesosphere?
500
The layer(s) that have a liquid state of matter
What is the outer core?
500
Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
What is a seismac wave?
500
Made mostly of th metals iron and nickel
What is the core?
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