Layers of the Earth

This is a cycle of heating, rising, cooling and sinking magma.

• continental crust

• convection currents

• oceanic crust

• seismic waves

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The outermost shell of the Earth is the ________

• mantle

• inner core

• crust

• outer core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A layer including the Earth's crust and the upper mantle

• crust

• lithosphere

• asthenosphere

• convection current

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A liquid layer of iron and nickel

• mantle

• crust

• inner core

• outer core

A thick, mostly solid layer that is 85% of the total mass of the Earth is the ______.

• crust

• mantle

• outer core

• inner core

This layer of crust is thicker but less dense ______

• continental crust

• oceanic crust

A semi-fluid layer of solid-liquid rock

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

• oceanic crust

• continental crust

These are waves that are produced by earthquakes and help with the study of the inner layers of the Earth.

• plate tectonic waves

• mantle waves

• continental waves

• seismic waves

This is the thinner yet more dense layer of the crust.

• oceanic crust

• continental crust

A large piece of Earth's crust that moves atop the mantle is _____

• seismic waves

• convection currents

• tectonic plates

• continents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3