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Mantle
Crust
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The center of the Earth that is composed mostly of nickel and iron.
What is the core?
100
This is the solid layer of the Earth below the crust.
What is the Mantle?
100
The hardest layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
These are the two layers of the earth that are solid.
What are the mantle and the crust?
100
These are created by Earthquakes.
What is a seismic wave?
200
It is the only fully liquid part of the Earth's interior.
What is special about the outer core?
200
This is the part of the mantle that is solid but almost like hot plastic.
What is the Asthenosphere?
200
These are what the crust is made of.
What are tectonic plates?
200
These are the two layers of the earth that have some liquid in them.
What are the mantle and the core?
200
This is the softer layer of the mantle
What is asthenosphere?
300
It is the most dense part of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
300
The hard layer of the mantle that the tectonic plates sit on top of.
What is the lithosphere?
300
This is made of mostly of basalt.
What is the ocean floor?
300
No other layer is made of liquid like this layer is.
What is he outer core?
300
This is the harder layer of the mantle.
What is Lithosphere?
400
This is what causes the Earth to have a magnetic field.
What is special about the Earth's Outer core moving?
400
We know what it looks like because of volcanos?
How do we know what the inside of the Earth looks like?
400
Granite is what these are mostly made of.
What are the continents made mostly of?
400
All layers of the Earth contain this substance.
What is Iron or Nickel?
400
The outer layer of the core.
What is the outer core?
500
The pressure of gravity and layers on top of it.
What causes the Earth's core to be so dense?
500
It is a word that means weak.
What does Aesthnos mean?
500
This is the deepest someone has dug into the Earth?
What is roughly 12 kilometers?
500
These are the two layers of the Earth we have not directly explored.
What are the mantle and the core?
500
The force pushing on a surface or area.
What is pressure?