1. Layers of the Earth Review

2. What is the outermost layer of the earth?
Crust
What is the outermost layer of the earth?

3. What layer of the core is a liquid metal?
Outer Core
What layer of the core is a liquid metal?

4. What is the layer between the crust and the core?
Mantle
What is the layer between the crust and the core?

5. Asthenospehere
What layer is that is above the mantle and has soft rocks that flow slowly?

6. What is the boundary between the Earth’s crust and mantle called?
Moho
What is the boundary between the Earth’s crust and mantle called?

7. Why is the inner core solid metal?
Because of all the pressure that is pushing in on it.
Why is the inner core solid metal?

8. What is the most rigid of all layers?
Lithosphere
What is the most rigid of all layers?

9. What are the two types of crust?
Oceanic and Continental
What are the two types of crust?

10. What causes the continents to drift?
The movement of the Asthenosphere
What causes the continents to drift?

11. What is the thickest layer of Earth?
Mantle
What is the thickest layer of Earth?

12. What layer causes the magnetic field because it spins?
Outer Core
What layer causes the magnetic field because it spins?