regions, upper and lower, this dense layer made of hot semi rock is located directly 1. ____________ – hard and rigid, the below the ________ and is about 1800 miles Earth’s outermost and ____________ thick. layer. Only a few miles (5 km) thick Lithosphere – made up of the crust and tiny under the oceans and averaging 20 miles bit of the mantle, this layer is divided into thick under the continents. several constantly (very slowly) moving plates of ___________ ________ that hold 3. _________ _________ – The only the continents and oceans __________layer of the Earth – a sea of mostly iron and nickel. It is roughly Asthenosphere – The plates of the 1800 – 3200 miles below the surface lithosphere move (_____________) on this and about 1400 miles thick. hot, malleable semi liquid zone in the upper Temperatures reach __________° C. mantle, directly below the lithosphere.
4. __________ ________ – An extremely
hot, solid sphere of mostly ________ and How do you think scientists discovered the layers of __________ at the center of the Earth. It our Earth? is 3200 to 2to 3960 miles below the surface and about 750 miles in diameter. NAME: _____________________________________________DATE: ______________ CLC: _______________________________________________SCORE: ______________ NAME: _____________________________________________DATE: ______________ CLC: _______________________________________________SCORE: ______________ NAME: _____________________________________________DATE: ______________