The Earth’s Layers

1. The Earth’s Layers

2. The Earth is divided into three layers.

4. Crust • The crust is the layer that you live on so it is the most widely studied and understood.

5. Crust • The crust is made of the lightest matter and the core consists of heavy metals

7. Crust • The Earth's Crust is like the skin of an apple. It is very thin in comparison to the other three layers.

8. Crust • The crust of the Earth is broken into many pieces called plates. The plates move along the soft mantle which is the layer located located below the crust.

9. Crust • The plates move along smoothly but sometimes they get stuck and pressure builds up.

10. Crust The pressure builds and causes an Earthquake as rocks break and crack.

11. Mantle • The mantle is the largest layer of the Earth. • It is made of hot, dense rock. The rock in the mantle flows like asphalt because of the temperature differences found in the mantle.

12. Mantle • The movement of the mantle create the movement of the Earth’s plates.

13. Core • The core of the Earth is much like a ball of very hot metals.The inner core is surrounded by a fluid iron outer core.

14. Core

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