Earth's Interior

What layers of the Earth make up the Lithosphere? (2)

• Upper Mantle

• Center Mantle

• Crust

• Outer Core

Explain how the Outer core is different than the Inner core?

• The outer core is smaller than the inner core

• The outer core is hotter than the inner core

• The outer core is liquid and the inner core is solid

What causes the plates to move inside the earth?

• Pressure

• Convection Currents

• Time

• Heat

What layer of the earth gives off a magnetic charge?

• Inner core

• Outer core

• Crust

• Mantle

Which is earths outermost structural layer?

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Mesosphere

• Outer core

In which layer of Earth does convection occur?

• Asthenosphere

• Oceanic crust

• Lithosphere

• Inner core

If scientists could sample Earth's inner core, they would most likely find…

• Liquid metal

• Solid metal

• Liquid rock

• Partly molten rock

Earth's physical layers are determined by what?

• color banding and size

• density and pressure

• gravity and no gravity

• metals or non metals

A theory explaining the gradual movement of the continents across the Earth's surface through geological time.

• Crust

• Tectonic plates

• Continental drift

• Outer core

The name of the supercontinent that included all of the landmasses on Earth that existed 200 million years ago.

• Pangaea

• plate boundaries

• Volcano

• Earthquake