Vocabulary Book # 7

Earth is divided into three main layers. The dense, hot inner core (yellow), the molten outer core (orange), the mantle (red), and the thin crust (brown), which supports all life in the known universe.

• Earth's Interior

• Core

• Sun

• Planet

A layer of the interior of the Earth. It exists between the crust and the transition zone.

• Upper Crust

• Upper Mantle

• Layers

• Earth's Core

In between the upper mantle and outer core of the earth. The lower mantle is the lower liquid portion of the mantle ranging from 400 miles below the surface to about 1,800 miles below the surface.

• Upper Mantle

• Outer Core

• Lower Mantle

• Physical State

Generally divided into older, thicker continental crust and younger, denser oceanic crust.

• Earth's Crust

• Earth's Core

• Earth's Moon

• Earth's Iron

The innermost geologic layer of planet Earth.

• Earth's Crust

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

The layer surrounding the inner core of the earth. It is a liquid layer, also made up of iron and nickel.

• Outer Core

• Inner Core

• Mantle

• Crust

The identity, arrangement, and ratio of the chemical elements making up a compound by way of chemical and atomic bonds.

• Mantle

• Chemical Peel

• Physical State

• Chemical Composition

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

State of matter; a distinct form in which substances can exist, including solid, liquid, gas, or plasma.

• Chemical State

• Matter

• Physical State

• Solar System

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

• Crust

• Shape

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

1. The upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Chemicalsphere

• Mantle