Earth's Interior Vocabulary Practice

The slowly flowing layer of rock under the lithosphere; composed of part of the mantle.

• Asthenosphere
• Outer Core
• Composition
• Temperature

A measurement of heat in a substance; how hot or cold something is.

• Convection
• Density
• Temperature
• Inner Core

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

A thin outer layer of rock above a planet’s mantle including all dry land and oceanic basins.

• Asthenosphere
• Core
• Composition
• Crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The solid inside portion of the core.

• Inner Core
• Convection
• Mantle
• Outer Core

measure of how much mass there is in a given volume of a substance.

• Composition
• Temperature
• Convection
• Density

What something is made of.

• Density
• Asthenosphere
• Composition
• Lithosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Earth’s thickest layer where rock is hot enough to flow in convection currents.

• Crust
• Mantle
• Inner Core
• Outer Core

The layer of Earth made up of the crust and the rigid rock of the upper mantle; broken into tectonic plates.

• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Biosphere
• Hydrosphere

A process that takes place in Earth’s Mantle; The transfer of energy from place to place by the motion of heated gas or liquid.

• Density
• Outer Core
• Convection
• Oceanic

The liquid iron and nickel outer portion of the core.

• Inner Core
• Outer Core
• Basalt
• Crust