earths layers

If you traveled from the center of Earth to the surface, the pressure would...

• increase
• decrease
• stay the same
• unsure

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Identify each layer - #19.

• mantle
• lithosphere
• inner core
• outer core

What is the outer core composed of?

• Basalt
• Granite
• Solid Metals
• Molten (liquid) Metals

The outermost solid layer of the Earth is called the

• mantle
• outer core
• inner core
• crust

The layer that lies beneath the mantle and surrounds the inner core. 

• mantle
• outer core
• inner core
• crust

Is a layer of week of soft mantle that is made of rock that flows slowly.  Tectonic plates move on top of this layer. 

• Inner Core
• Asthensophere
• Lithosphere
• Outer Core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Places where tectonic plates are coming together.

• divergent boundaries

• transform boundaries

• convergent boundaries

• fault-block mountains

Waves that only travel through solids and temporarily change the shape, but not the volume of the material they pass through.

• Primary waves (P-Waves)

• Earthquake

• Secondary waves (S-Waves)

• Seismic waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Compression waves that travel through solids and liquids, compressing and expanding the material they pass through, temporarily changing volume.

• Secondary waves (S-waves)

• seismic waves

• Primary waves (P-waves)

• fault-block mountains

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What layer has a solid inner part and a liquid outer part?

• Crust
• Mantle
• Core
• none