Layers Of The Earth

Front 1

Core

Back 1

Earth's super hot center---the outer core is liquid and the inner core is solid.

Front 2

Crust

Back 2

Earth's cool outer layer of mostly solid rock

Front 3

Mantle

Back 3

Earth's vast middle layer

Front 4

Geology

Back 4

The study of the Earth's origin, history, and structure.

Front 5

Lithosphere

Back 5

the outer part of the solid earth

Front 6

Magnetic Field

Back 6

the area around a magnet or electric coil that has the power to attract other metals, usually iron or steel

Front 7

Molecule

Back 7

the smallest part of a substance that displays all the properties of that substance

Front 8

plates

Back 8

a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.

Front 9

Plate Tectonics

Back 9

is the geological theory that states that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in a constant, slow motion, driven my currents in the mantle

Front 10

subduction

Back 10

the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a plate boundary

Front 11

transform boundary

Back 11

a place where two plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions

Front 12

divergent boundary

Back 12

the place where two plates move apart

Front 13

convergent boundary

Back 13

the place where two plates come together

Front 14

rift valley

Back 14

a deep valley that forms where two plates move apart