2.2 Eath's Interior

the lower mantle, a solid, more brittle physical layer of the Earth, below the asthenosphere.

• asthenosphere

• mesosphere

• nickel

• inner core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

energy that travels through the Earth, resulting from earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, magma movement and other rock movements.

• inner core

• outer core

• seismic waves

• convection

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

the mostly solid bulk of Earth's interior; it lies between the core and the crust. It makes up 84 % of Earth's volume.

• oceanic crusts

• periodotite

• convection

• mantle

constantly formed at mid-ocean ridges, where tectonic plats are tearing apart from each other. Magama rises in these areas and cools to form new rocks.

• thermal energy

• oceanic crust

• seismic waves

• continental crust

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

the thin outer shell of rock, making up less than 1% of the Earth's radius and volume.

• continental crust

• Earth's crust

• oceanic crust

• mantle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

large slabs or rock that divide Earth's crust, move constanly to reshape the Earth's landscape.

• Earth's crust

• mantle

• tectonic plates

• mesosphere

space rocks that fall to Earth's surface.

• Kimberlite

• meteorite

• mesosphere

• outer core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a fluid layer, composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above the Earht's solid inner core and below the mantle.

• meteorite

• tectonic plates

• outer core

• asthenospher

a dark-colored heavy, and fragmented igneous rock that cooled inside Earth. It has large rounded crystals with many holes.

• Periodotite

• Kimberlite

• meteorite

• lithosphere

the energy contained within a system that is responsible for its temperature. Heat is the flow of this energy.

• outer core

• thermal energy

• seismic wave

• nickel

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4