Layers of Earth Vocabulary

A characteristic of the material in the asthenosphere: existing in a solid state yet having the ability to flow

• Convection

• Plasticity

• Pressure

• Density

The thin, solid, outermost layer of Earth; is either continental or oceanic

• Mantle

• Asthenosphere

• Crust

• Outer Core

The cool, rigid, outermost layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle; broken into pieces or segments called plates

• Mantle

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The solid layer with plasticity in the upper mantle that is located just below the lithosphere; plates "float" and move on this layer

• Crust

• Mantle

• Outer core

• Asthenosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The solid layer of Earth between the crust and the core; made of dense silicates

• Mantle

• Outer core

• Crust

• Lithosphere

The outer later of the Earth's core; surrounds the inner core and is made of liquid nickel and iron

• Mantle

• Outer core

• Crust

• Inner core

Innermost part of Earth made of solid nickel and iron

• Inner core

• Outer core

• Mantle

• Crust

soft layer of mantle on which the lithosphere floats

• Outer Core
• Crust
• Asthenosphere
• Mantle

Mantle layer of hot, solid material between the Earth's crust and core

• Lithosphere
• Geology
• Mantle
• Pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

dense ball of solid metal (iron & nickel)

• Inner core
• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Mantle