Earth's Interior

Information or data from rock samples used to study Earth's interior.

• Paths of seismic waves
• Direct evidence of Earth's interior
• Indirect evidence of Earth's interior
• Outer core

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Information or data from seismic waves used to study Earth's interior.

• Inner core
• Indirect evidence of Earth's interior
• Production of new rock
• Direct evidence of Earth's interior

Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.

• laboratories
• Oceanic crust
• Layer Chart
• Seismic wave

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Reveal where the makeup or form of rocks change in Earth's interior.

• laboratories
• Asthenosphere
• Paths of seismic waves
• Oceanic crust

Where scientists can recreate the conditions that form rocks deep in the Earth

• Asthenosphere
• Crust
• laboratories
• Outer core

Increases as depth increases inside Earth's interior.

• laboratories
• Asthenosphere
• Pressure
• Temperature

Increases as depth increases inside Earth's interior.

• Temperature
• Crust
• Inner core
• Mantle

Result from the release of energy from radioactive substances and heat left over from the formation of Earth.

• Inner core
• Layer Chart
• Temperature
• High temperatures

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The layer of rock that forms Earth's outer surface, including dry land and the ocean floor. Varies in thickness and mostly made of silicon and oxygen.

• Crust
• Outer core
• Continental crust
• Lithosphere

The part of the crust that forms the ocean floor and is mostly made of basalt, a dark, fine-grained rock.

• laboratories
• Continental crust
• Lithosphere
• Oceanic crust