Layers Of The Earth

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Lithosphere floats on the asthenosphere like blank

Jello

It has more magnesium and less aluminum and silicon than te crust

Lithosphere

The asthenosphere is located right below the blank

Lithosphere

This is the crunchy layer of the earth

Lithosphere

What are the two parts the mantle is divided into

Lithosphere and asthenosphere

The mantle has more blank and less aluminum and blank than the crust

Magnesium;silicon

The mantle contains most of earths blank

Mass

Blank crust is the crust below the oceans. It is thinner and younger than the continental crust

Oceanic

Is liquid and is made up mostly of iron and is easily magnetized

Outer core

The crust is the blank layer of the earth

Outermost

The crust is made up of blank silicon and blank

Oxygen;aluminum.

The asthenosphere is soft and can bend like blank.

Plastic

The crust is broken up into huge thick blanks that drift on the top of the soft under lying blank

Plates;mantle

The asthenosphere is in the upper blank of the mantle

Portion

The earth is made up of 4 basic layers

Inner core outer core mantle crust

The core is divided into blank layers

Two

The mantle is divided into blank parts

Two

How many types of crust are there

2

The outer crust is about blank km thick

2250

Blank crust is the crust that makes up the continents. It is thicker and older then the oceanic crust

Continental

The blank is located below the mantle

Core

The mantle is the layer of earth between the blank and the core

Crust

The mantle is blank than the crust

Denser

The crust is not a blank blank shell

Solid shell

What is inferred to be the cause of earths magnetic field

The movement of liquid in the outer crust


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