Layers of the Earth Vocabulary
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Layer of gases surrounding Earth | Atmosphere
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| Layer of water in and above the crust (ocean, rivers, lakes) | Hydrosphere
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| Layer that includes the parts of Earth that are able to support living things | Biosphere
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| Earths outermost and thinnest layer. Only 1% of Earth's materials. | Crust
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| Dividing line between crust and the mantle | Moho
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| What scientists call the crust and the moho together | Lithosphere
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| Thickest layer and makes up most of Earth's material | Mantle
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| Layer made mostly of iron and nickel but so hot it is liquid | Outer Core
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| Layer made of iron and under such pressure that it is so dense it is solid | Inner Core
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| A slow destructive process that breaks rocks into smaller piles called sediments | Weathering
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| A destructive process that moves rocks and sediment away from a place | Erosion
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| A constructive process that occurs when eroded sediments are deposited in new places; it forms changes in the surface such as sand dunes, hills, sand bars in rivers, coastlines, etc. | Deposition
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| Small rocks, pebbles sand, gravel, silt and clay dust | Sediment
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| Decaying plants and animals | Matter
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| Up to 25 miles thick, mostly granite | Continental Crust
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| About 6 miles thick, mostly basalt pressed down by the weight of water | Oceanic Crust
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