Unit 1.4

Question 1

Asthenosphere

Answer 1

The partially melted portion of the mantle below the lithosphere

Question 2

Core

Answer 2

The dense metallic center of earth

Question 3

Continental crust

Answer 3

The relatively thick part of earth’s crust that form on land masses

Question 4

Density

Answer 4

the compactness of a substance

Question 5

Outer core

Answer 5

liquid, iron-nickel layer of the Earth between the solid inner core and lower mantle.

Question 6

Oceans crust

Answer 6

the relatively thin part of the earth’s crust which underlies the ocean floor

Question 7

Inner core

Answer 7

Earth’s inner core is the innermost geologic layer of planet Earth.

Question 8

lithosphere

Answer 8

the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.

Question 9

Mantle

Answer 9

layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.

Question 10

Magnetosphere

Answer 10

the region surrounding the earth or another astronomical body in which its a magnetic field is the predominant effective magnetic field

Question 11

Outer core

Answer 11

the earth’s crust