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Earth Science - Layers of the Earth
Earth Science - Layers of the Earth
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Layers of the Earth
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What is the name of the photograph of Earth taken last Feb 14, 1990 by NASA's Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7B miles?
The Pale Blue Dot
The Blue Planet
The Pixel
Earth Rising
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It is composed of crust and uppermost mantle where tectonic plates can be found.
Upper mantle
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Oceanic Crust
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Layer of the Earth that we live on and it is the most widely studied and understood.
Inner Core
Mantle
Crust
Outer Core
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Lowest point in Earth's crust.
Mt. Everest
Ocean floor
Pacific ocean
Mariana Trench
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The continental crust is composed mostly of ______.
sedimentary rocks
asphalt
basaltic rocks
granite
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Layer of the earth which is composed of liquid Iron and nickel.
Outer core
Crust
Inner core
mantle
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This plate has 3 -5 miles in terms of thickness.
Upper Mantle
Oceanic Plate
Lithosphere
Continental Plate
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Layer of the earth where solid nickle and iron are its main materials.
Mantle
Crust
Inner core
Outer core
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It is made out of lower density felsic materials.
Oceanic Crust
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
Continental Crust
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It is made out of higher density mafic materials.
Ocean crust
Asthenosphere
Continental crust
Lithosphere
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Layer of the Earth which are composed of solid silicate materials.
Outer core
Crust
Inner core
Lower Mantle
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Layer of the Earth where a process/cycle that associated in rising of hot mat. and sinking of cooled mat. is present.
Outer core
Crust
Mantle
Inner core
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This plate has 5 - 25 miles in terms of thickness.
Continental Plate
Lower Mantle
Crust
Oceanic Plate
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Part of the upper mantle, where it allows plates to move and composed of weaker materials.
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Oceanic Crust
Continental Crust