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Earth's Interior

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Inner core: a ball of _____ solid _____ at the _____ of the earth ball of hot….solid metal….center of the earth
Outer core: _____ layer of _____ that _____ the inner core liquid layer of metal….surrounds the inner core
Mantle: earth's _____ layer between the outer core and ______ made of _____ thickest layer between outer core…..crust made of magma
Crust: the _____ layer of earth made of a _____ layer of cool _____ top layer…thin layer…cool rock
Lithosphere: the layer of earth made of the _____ crust and the _____ rigid _____ of the upper ______ which is broken into _____ plates made of crust…rigid rock…upper mantle…tectonic plates
Asthenosphere: the layer in earth's _____ mantle directly under the _____ in which rock is _____ and _____ because it is close to melting upper mantle…under the lithosphere…rock is soft and weak….because close to melting
Tectonic _________ : the process in which the _____ of a _____ material under the _____of the Earth. These are called plate_____ Tectonic plates…..motion of hot material….under the crust changes…plate tectonics
What are earth's 3 main layers Core, mantle and crust
What do earthquake waves have in common with other waves? they bend when they travel through different materials
Which word best characterizes the lower mantle? scalding
How deep would you have to drill to reach the center of the earth? about 6,000 kilometers, is how deep you have to drill to the ____ of the earth.
What effect does the spinning of the earth's core have? __________ creates the earth's magnetic field
Which of the following statements about the Earth's inner core is true? it's mostly made of iron
What is the only entirely liquid layer of the earth? only _____ layer of the earth is the outer core
Which of the following statements is an opinion about the mantle? It is the most important layer of the earth
If the earth/s mantle were completely solid, _____ plates could not move around Tectonic
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