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Earth Layers Vocab
6th Earth Science Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Asthenosphere | Is the weak solid plastic like part of the upper mantle of Earth, It lies below the lithosphere. |
Core | Two part layer of the Earth below the mantle with a liquid outer core and a solid inner core. |
Density | The amount of space something takes up in a object or how thick something is. |
Inner core | Solid nickel and iron at the center of the earth. |
Outer core | Liquid nickel and iron that surrounds the inner core where electricity is made by convection current creating the earths magnetic field. |
Mantle | The thickest playdough like or plastic like layer of earth between the crust and the core. |
Crust | Thin rocky ridge upper part of the lithosphere which is the outer most layer of the earth. |
lithosphere | Cool,Ridged or hard layer of the earth that is made of the crust and upper mantle that is broken into big pieces of rock or plates. |
Plasticity | Material in the asthenosphere that solid and yet can flow |