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| Back to the Printout | Label the Outer Layers of the Earth |
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Continental Crust - the thick parts of the Earth's crust, not located under the ocean. Lithosphere - the crust plus the rigid, upper mantle. Lower Mantle (semi-rigid) - the deepest parts of the mantle, just above the core. Mohorovicic discontinuity - separates the crust and the upper mantle. Ocean - large bodies of water sitting atop oceanic crust. Oceanic Crust - thin parts of the Earth's crust located under the oceans. Upper Mantle (rigid) - the uppermost part of the mantle, part of the Lithosphere. Upper Mantle (flowing) = Asthenosphere - the lower part of the upper mantle that exhibits plastic (flowing) properties. It is located below the lithosphere (the crust and upper mantle), between about 100 and 250 kilometers deep. |
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