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Inside Earth

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Asthenosphere   a layer of hot soft rock in the upper mantle  
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Composition   the material that something is made up of  
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Crust   a thin layer of rock that surrounds the Earth  
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Density   the quantity of matter in a given amount of space; density determines if an material sinks or floats.  
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Lithosphere   the crust and the very top portion of the mantle together  
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Mantle   Earth’s thickest layer, it has a more rigid upper portion and a softer, lower portion  
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Outer core   a layer of hot liquid metals surrounding the inner core  
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Inner Core   a ball of hot, solid metals at the center of Earth (mostly iron and nickel)  
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Magma   hot fluid rock within or beneath the earth’s crust (pockets of magma can be found in the mantle)  
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Hot spots   places in the crust where heated fluid rock (magma) rises in thin columns from the mantle  
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