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Earth's Layers Test

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What is the thinnest layer?
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Which layer vibrates in place because of all the pressure put on it?
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What is the outer core made of?
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What are the differences between the oceanic crust and continental crust?
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What are the two types of crust?
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What is the order of the layers starting from the surface?
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How are the outer and inner core different?
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What is a convection current?
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Why is the inner core solid?
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What is the crust made of?
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What is the inner core made of?
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What is the mantle made of?
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How are the outer and inner core alike?
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As you go deeper toward the inner core, what increases?
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oceanic and continental
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solid iron and nickel (solid metals)
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crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
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They are both made of iron and nickel.
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because of all the pressure from the other layers
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solid rock and soil (The rock is mostly basalt and granite.)
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The oceanic is below the ocean, and the continental is below the land. The oceanic is more dense than the continental. The oceanic is thinner than the continental.
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density, pressure, and temperature
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Warm, less dense material rises, and cool, more dense material sinks. This keeps happening over and over. It happens in the mantle.
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crust
K.
inner core
L.
very hot, molten rock (solid rock and magma)
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liquid iron and nickel (liquid metals)
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The inner core is solid, and the outer core is liquid. The inner core is more dense than the outer core. The inner core is hotter and under more pressure than the outer core.
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What layer is made of solid and melted rock?
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What is the thickest layer?
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What is the most dense layer?
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What is the coolest layer?
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What is the only liquid layer?
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What layer supports the crust?
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What happens in the mantle that causes heat to rise toward the crust?
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What is the hottest layer?
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What part of the Earth do we live on?
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how tightly packed something is

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