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The thin outer layer of the the earth.
What is the crust?
The mantle is...
What is the portion of the earth's interior extending from the outer core to the bottom of the crust?
The definition of Seismic Waves.
What is a wave of energy that travels through the earth?
The thinnest layer of the Earth is known as...
What is the Crust?
The inner core is made of...
What is a iron-nickel alloy?
The solid center of the Earth is known as what.
What is the inner core?
The magentosphere is...
What is the area around the earth that is affected by the earth's magnetic field?
S waves are...
What is a Seismic wave that only travels through solids.
The largest layer of the earth, in both volume and mass.
What is the mantle?
What shields the earth from harmful solar winds.
What is the magentosphere?
The crust beneath the oceans.
What is the oceanic crust?
The outer core is...
What is the liquid layer of the earth's core, that surrounds the inner core?
The fastest seismic wave.
What are P waves?
True or False: The inner core and crust are around the same volume.
What is true?
The deepest hole in the crust was named what, after the peninsula it is located.
What is Kola Borehole?
The outermost rigid layer of the earth composed of the stiff upper layer of the mantle and the crust.
What is the lithosphere?
The Asthenosphere is...
What is the boundary between the mantle and the crust?
Convection currents happen in this layer of the Earth.
Where is the mantle.
There are 3 layers of mantle and there names are...
What are the lower mantle, transition zone, and upper mantle?
The outer core made out of.
What is iron and sulfur?
The boundary between the mantle and the crust.
What is the Moho?
The continental crust is...
What is the crust on which the continents rest on?
The S & P stands for what in S waves and P waves.
What is secondary and primary?
The core is slightly larger than this planet.
What is Mars?
In 1864 Jules Vern wrote this book about his imaginative description of what the inner earth looks like.
What is the Journey to the Center of the Earth?