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What is the density of the continental crust
What layer of Earth's interior is liquid?
Earth Science Reference Tables page 1, 10, 14
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What layer of Earth's interior is liquid?
asthenosphere
outer core
crust
inner core
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What is the density of the continental crust
2.8
2.7
3.0
3.1
3
The rigid mantle is part of the _____________________.
atmosphere
hydrosphere
lithosphere
4
As depth increases within Earth's interior, temperature ___________________.
increases
remains the same
decreases
5
What is meant by the hydrosphere?
magma
outer core
oceans
crust
6
The lithosphere is the
crust and asthenosphere
crust and rigid mantle
crust and inner core
crust and outer core
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What is the least abundant element in percent by volume in the crust?
Magnesium
Potassium
Oxygen
Other
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What is the most abundant element in the hydrosphere
other
oxygen
hydrogen
nitrogen
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What is the least abundant element in the atmosphere?
other
potassium
oxygen
Nitrogen
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What is the temperature at a depth of 1500 km?
2700
3700
2100
3100
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What is the composition of the outer core?
iron and magnesium
nickel only
iron only
iron and nickel
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What layer of the atmosphere has weather?
stratosphere
mesosphere
thermosphere
troposhpere
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As altitude increases in the atmosphere, pressure...
increases then decreases
increases
decreases
decreases then increases
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What is the approximate depth of Earth's center?
6000 km
6500 km
5100 km
6400 km
