The document summarizes the layers of the Earth. It is made up of four main layers: the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. The crust is the outermost layer that humans live on. Below is the mantle, which is hot and flows like plastic. Deepest are the outer and inner cores, which are extremely hot and put intense pressure, squeezing materials into an extremely dense solid or liquid state. The mantle's convection currents cause the crustal plates to slowly move over time.
The document summarizes the layers of the Earth. It is made up of four main layers: the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. The crust is the outermost layer that humans live on. Below is the mantle, which is hot and flows like plastic. Deepest are the outer and inner cores, which are extremely hot and put intense pressure, squeezing materials into an extremely dense solid or liquid state. The mantle's convection currents cause the crustal plates to slowly move over time.
The document summarizes the layers of the Earth. It is made up of four main layers: the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. The crust is the outermost layer that humans live on. Below is the mantle, which is hot and flows like plastic. Deepest are the outer and inner cores, which are extremely hot and put intense pressure, squeezing materials into an extremely dense solid or liquid state. The mantle's convection currents cause the crustal plates to slowly move over time.
The Earth is made up of 3 main layers: The Earth’s Layers the Earth is composed of four different layers. 1. The crust is the layer that you live on, and it is the most widely studied and understood. 2. The mantle is much hotter and has the ability to flow. 3. The outer core and inner core are even hotter with pressures so great you would be squeezed into a ball smaller than a marble if you were able to go to the center of the Earth The Layers of the Earth CRUST The uppermost portion of the Lithosphere - Mainly composed of different Rocks and Minerals - It is relatively Rigid and Brittle and resist deformation instead of flowing. Types of Crust Continental Crust thick, less dense than oceanic crust and mostly old - about 25 miles (32 kilometers) thick under the continents -Is mostly composed of GRANITE. Oceanic Crust thin, dense - sinks under continental crust and young - is only about 3-5 miles (8 kilometers) thick under the oceans - is mostly composed of BASALT The Crustal Plates -the crust of the Earth is broken into many pieces called Plates. MANTLE The Mantle is the largest layer of the Earth at about 3000 km thick. -Composed of hot, iron – rich Silicate rocks -It behaves like “plastic”, it responds in semi-fluid manner -The middle mantle is composed of very hot dense rock that flows like asphalt under a heavy weight. The Upper portion of the Mantle, which extends from crust to mantle boundary down to a depth of about 350 km, has two zones, the lower part of the upper mantle is called the ASTHENOSPHERE. The Asthenosphere The semi-rigid part of the middle mantle that flows like hot asphalt under a heavy weight. The lithosphere “floats” on the asthenosphere How does the Mantle (Asthenosphere) affects the Crust? The middle mantle "flows" because of convection currents. Convection currents are caused by the very hot material at the deepest part of the mantle rising, then cooling and sinking again --repeating this cycle over and over. Plate Movement “Plates” move around because of the underlying hot mantle convection cells These are kept semi liquid by naturally occurring radioactivity. THE OUTER CORE THE CORE OF THE EARTH is like a ball of very hot metals. The Outer core is so hot that the metals in it are all in the liquid state. The outer core is composed of the melted metals of nickel and iron. The Inner Core The inner core of the Earth has temperatures and pressures so great that the metals are squeezed together and are not able to move about like a liquid, but are forced to vibrate in place like a solid.