Earth's Layers

Crust

100

What is the thicker crust? Oceanic or Continental.

What is Continental

200

What is the Continental crust made up of?

What is primarily Granite

300

Which crust is thinner? Oceanic or Continental?

What is Oceanic

400

what mechanical layer is made up of the crust and a small portion of the upper mantle?

What is the Lithosphere

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What is the composition of the oceanic crust?

Basalt

Mantle

100

The compositional layer between the Crust & Core

What is the mantle

200

Which type(s) of seismic waves are able to go thru the Mantle?

S & P waves

300

What is the mantle's composition?

What is molten silicate rocks (melted)

400

What is the cycle that is found in the mantle?

What is convection currents

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What mechanical layer are convection currents located in?

Asthenosphere

Outer Core

100

What is the composition of the outer core?

What is Iron and nickel

200

What does the outer core and inner core create around Earth?

What is the Magnetic Field

300

What is the reason the outer core is a liquid and not a solid?

The inner core melts the outer core

400

Which is thicker: Outer Core or Inner Core?

Outer Core

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Is it more or less dense than the inner core ?

What is less

Inner Core

100

Which Seismic Waves are able to go thru the Inner Core?

P-waves only

200

true of false? The inner core is made liquid iron and nickel

What is false. it is made out of solid iron and nickel

300

true of false. do the convection currents go on in the inner core

What is false. the convection currents go on in the mantle

400

true or false. is the inner core the most dense layer?

What is true.

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What keeps the Inner Core a solid? (2 items)

Pressure & Gravity

Misc.

100

What is the heat source of the inside of earth?

The Core (Inner & Outer)

200

Give the following about S-Waves: How do they move, state of matter they move through, layers they go through.

1. Up & Down (snake)

2. Solids only

3. Crust & Mantle

300

In a Convection Current, what happens to the temperature, pressure, density and molecules as the material travels across the top of the current from left to right? 

Temperature goes down

Pressure and Density increase

Molecules compact or contract

400

In a convection current, material that travels right to left along the HEAT SOURCE, causes the materials temperature, pressure, density, and molecules to do what? 

1. Temperature Increases

2. Pressure and Density Decrease

3. Molecules Expand

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Name the mechanical layers in order from top to middle of earth?

What is Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, outer core, inner core