Earth's Layers
Moon
Convection Currents
Mish Mash
More Layer
100
Layer that is liquid.
What are the outer core?
100
Side with mares
What is the side we see from Earth?
100
Hot substances are generally ___________ dense.
What is less?
100
The magnetosphere protects Earth from this.
What are solar winds?
100
As the outer core cools, this is getting bigger.
What is the inner core?
200
Earth's main layers
What are the crust, mantle,outer core, inner core?
200
Light parts are caused by this.
What are meteors crashing into the surface?
200
When heat is being transferred from one place to another by mass motion of a fluid you get this.
What is a convection current?
200
The least layer in the Earth
What is the crust?
200
Composition of the inner core.
What is iron and nickel?
300
Layer under the highest pressure.
What is the inner core?
300
Mares are formed from this.
What is lava flowing and forming pools?
300
Convection currents are found in these layers.
What are the mantle and outer core?
300
The more dense layer of the crust.
What is the oceanic crust?
300
Inner core rotates at a _________ rate as the rest of the Earth.
What is different?
400
The part of the mantle which is made up of a soft rock that bends like plastic.
What is the asthenosphere?
400
Moon has cooled causing this to be lost.
What is the magnetosphere?
400
The liquid outer core layer is churning, creating this.
What is the magnetosphere?
400
Seismic waves called S waves canNOT pass through which layer?
What is the outer core?
400
The thickest layer in the Earth.
What is the mantle?
500
The crust is also known as this.
What is the lithosphere?
500
Name of the lunar debris.
What is regolith?
500
Common dense rock that picks up xenoliths.
What is basalt?
500
Direction and rate of moon movement relative to Earth.
What is moving away at about 1 inch per year?
500
The moon no longer has active lava flows because of this.
What is cooling of the moon because it is smaller?