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Crust |
Is made of relatively little and brittle rocks. |
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Continental crust |
Is the colder and thicker part of the crust which makes up the continents. |
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Oceanic crust |
Is the rock of the ocean floor. |
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Mantle |
The middle layer. |
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Lava |
Is molten rock -magma - that reaches Earths surface. |
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Lithosphere |
(Meaning rock sphere). |
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Tectonic plates |
The lithosphere is divided into giant, slow moving chunks of rock. |
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Athosphere |
Is a soft layer in the mantle that flows like a very thick liquid |
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Magnetic field |
The area in which the magnet force is exerted |
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Core |
The Earths most inner layer |
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Magma |
Melted rock below the Earths surface |
