Crust a move!
This type of crust is the thickest.
What is continental crust?
The lower mantle is which state of matter?
What is solid?
Convection currents in this layer help create Earth's magnetic field.
What is the outer core?
Earth and all planets are comprised of layers due to this phenomenon.
What is planetary differentiation?
This layer of the Earth drives convection currents in the outer core.
What is the inner core?
This type of crust is made of mostly of basalt.
What is the oceanic crust?
This chemical layer is the thickest layer of Earth's interior.
What is the mantle?
Earth's core is mostly made up of these two elements.
What are iron and nickel?
Planetary differentiation occurs primarily due to differences in each layers' what?
What is density?
Convection currents flow in which layers of Earth?
What is the mantle (asthenosphere) and the outer core?
These layers make up the lithosphere.
What is the crust + uppermost part of the mantle?
The solid part of the mantle.
What is the lower mantle (or mesosphere)?
The only fully liquid part of Earth's interior
What is the outer core?
The formula for calculating density.
What is Density=mass/Volume?
What protects the Earth from solar wind?
What is Earth's magnetic field (magnetosphere)?
This type of crust is thinner and more dense.
What is oceanic crust?
The upper mantle and crust both make up the lithosphere. Which of these layers is more dense?
What is the upper mantle
This layer experiences the most pressure of all of Earth's layers.
What is the inner core?
The reason for the huge jump in density from the mantle to the core.
What is a change in material from primarily rock to metals?
The temperature of the inner core is as hot as what?
What is the surface of the sun?
Continental crust is comprised mostly of this type of rock.
What is granite?
The plastic nature of this portion of the upper mantle is responsible for tectonic plate movement.
What is the aesthenosphere?
Earth's inner core is solid because of this.
What is the pressure is too great for the temperature to melt the material?
These three things have a direct relationship in Earth's interior.
What is density, temperature, and pressure?
Explain briefly how a convection current works.
As material heats, density decreases and the material rises. Material cools as it travels and as it cools, density increases and the material sinks.