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Inside Earth 1:1
Chapter 1 section 1 Earths Interior
Term | Definition |
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geologist | A scientist that studies the forces that make and shape planet earth. |
rock | The material that forms all earths hard surface . |
geology | The study of planet Earth. |
Constructive force | Shape of planet earth. |
Constructive force | Shape earths surface by building up mountains and land masses. |
destructive forces | destroys and wears away landmass through a process like erosion and weathering |
seismic wave | a ground vibration produced by a earthquake |
pressure | the fore pushing on a area |
crust | The outermost layer of solid rock that includes both dry a land and the ocean floor. The thinnest layer of the earth. |
basalt | a dark dense igneous rock found in oceanic crust |
granite | the most abundant rock in the continental crust. |
mantle | the thick layer of hot rock between earths crust and core that even has convention currents |
Lithosphere | The crust and upper mantle of the Earth that is solid and rigid |
asthenosphere | The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats. |
outer core | a layer of molten (melted) metal, mainly nickel and iron, that surrounds Earth’s inner core. |
inner core | A solid sphere of iron and nickel at the center of the earth. |