Layers of the Earth

This layer is made of hot flowing rock (magma).

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The layer made of iron and nickel.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

This layer is made of soil and rocks.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

The layer is divided into two: the continental and oceanic.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

We live on this layer.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

Two thirds of the Earth’s mass is in this layer.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Core

As you travel from the inner core to the crust, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?

• They would all increase

• They would all decrease.

• Nothing, the layers are made of the same material throughout

• Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase

The thinnest layer of the Earth is the ___________.

• mantle
• crust
• core

Which layer is located directly underneath the lithosphere?

• Crust

• Inner core

• Asthenosphere

As you travel from the crust to the core, how would temperature, pressure and density of the material change?

• They would all increase

• They would all decrease.

• Nothing, the layers are made of the same material throughout

• Temperature would decrease, but pressure and density would increase