structure of earth
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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show | a personal, straightforward observation
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INDIRECT EVIDENCE | show 🗑
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show | vibrations produced by earthquakes
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SEISMOGRAPH | show 🗑
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show | paper or electronic record of earthquake vibrations
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INNER CORE | show 🗑
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OUTER CORE | show 🗑
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show | outermost layer of the Earth; includes both the dry land and the ocean floor. It is thinnest beneath the oceans and thickest under high mountains.
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show | stiff
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MANTLE | show 🗑
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show | moving easily
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show | a rigid layer formed by the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle.
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PLATE | show 🗑
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ASTHENOSPHERE | show 🗑
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show | melted; changed to a liquid form by heating
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show | circular movements in the mantle caused by the difference in temperatures from the bottom to the top of the mantle. Hot columns of mantle (heated by Earth’s core) rise, and then cool and fall, and then are warmed again and rise.
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COMPOSITION | show 🗑
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show | mass per unit volume of a substance. Determined in part by how closely packed particles are. Increases from the Earth’s crust to the core.
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show | amount of force, or pressing, on a substance. Increases from the Earth’s crust to the core.
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TEMPERATURE | show 🗑
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