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Earth Layers Notes Seismic Layers o Scientists know that the Earth ______________________________________ This is known by ____________________________________________ If the Earth was not layered, seismic waves would travel ______________ _________________________________________________________ This is ________ the case Earth Layers o Four Major Layers 1. Crust – the ______________________________________________ Two types - ___________________________________________ o Continental - ________________________________________ o Oceanic - __________________________________________ 2. Mantle o Upper mantle is _______________________________________ (______________________________________________) o Lower mantle is________________________________________ o Magma rises and lowers, creating___________________________ 3. Outer Core o ________________________________________ Flowing iron produces Earth’s _________________________ 4. Inner Core – o Hottest Layer Solid iron-nickel sphere Solid due to ____________________________________ Lithosphere & Asthenosphere o Lithosphere Cool solid outer layer of Earth Consists of ___________________________________________ o Asthenosphere Warm soft and weak layer of Earth Consists of ___________________________________________ Moho o Mohorovicic Discontinuity The separation between the ____________and the _________________ Shortened to Moho Discovered in _____________by seismologist Andrija Mohorovicic Discovered it by studying ____________________________________ Earth Layers Notes Seismic Layers o Scientists know that the Earth ______________________________________ This is known by ____________________________________________ If the Earth was not layered, seismic waves would travel ______________ _________________________________________________________ This is ________ the case Earth Layers o Four Major Layers 1. Crust – the ______________________________________________ Two types - ___________________________________________ o Continental - ________________________________________ o Oceanic - __________________________________________ 2. Mantle o Upper mantle is _______________________________________ (______________________________________________) o Lower mantle is________________________________________ o Magma rises and lowers, creating___________________________ 3. Outer Core o ________________________________________ Flowing iron produces Earth’s _________________________ 4. Inner Core – o Hottest Layer Solid iron-nickel sphere Solid due to ____________________________________ Lithosphere & Asthenosphere o Lithosphere Cool solid outer layer of Earth Consists of ___________________________________________ o Asthenosphere Warm soft and weak layer of Earth Consists of ___________________________________________ Moho o Mohorovicic Discontinuity The separation between the ____________and the _________________ Shortened to Moho Discovered in _____________by seismologist Andrija Mohorovicic Discovered it by studying ____________________________________