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Layers of the Earth Review
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The thinnest layer of the Earth
is____________.
The crust is made of
_________________ .
The two types of crust are __________
and ________ crust.
Oceanic Crust is made mostly of
the dark, fine rock __________.
Continental Crust is made
mostly of the light , coarse rock
__________.
Ocean crust is much __________than
continental crust.
Ocean crust is much denser than
continental crust, however it is also
much ____________ than continental
crust.
The crust that is found on the
continents and at the beginning
of the oceans (the continental
shelf) is ________________.
Continental crust is made of
mostly _________________rock.
Continental crust is much ________than
oceanic crust.
Continental crust is much thicker
than oceanic crust, however it is
____________
All life on Earth exists on or
within a few hundred meters of
the __________.
How do scientists study the Earth?
The instrument used to
record the two types of
waves that penetrate the
Earth’s interior and then
return to the surface is a
__________.
Two types of seismic waves are
_____________ and _____________.
S-waves
_____________do not move well
through liquid.
The inner core of the Earth is
made of _________ and ________.
The inner core is a solid due to
the enormous __________ from
the layers above it.
The temperature of the
inner core ranges from
about
A very thin layer called the
__________________separates the
mantle and the core.
The main layer above the outer
core is the _________.
A very thin layer called the
______________ separates the
mantle and the crust.
The central part of the mantle is
considered to be the
___________.
The asthenosphere has the
ability to _________ and has the
property of __________.
Asthenes means ______in Greek!
____________,__________
and_________ increase as you go
deeper into the mantle.
The lithosphere is made up of
the ___________ and the _______.
Geologists have used two main
types of evidence to learn about
Earth’s interior: __________
and ____________________.
Studying rock samples is an
example of ___________.
Studying seismic waves is an
example of ______________.
Litho is Greek means _________or
________________.
Liquid rock outside the Earth is
called _____________.
Rocks are classified as either
___________, ______________ or
___________________ rocks.
The ________ is made of soil,
sand and rock.
The ________ sphere is where all
the water is found on Earth.
The ________ is the envelope of
gasses that surrounds the Earth.
Scientists think that movements
in the liquid outer core create
Earth’s ___________ that
surrounds the planet.
What are the segments of
the Earth’s crust that are
moving called?
What is liquid rock that hardens
inside the Earth called?