EARTH: STRUCTURE

EARTH’S FORMATION AND

LAYERS
•CORE
-INNER and OUTER
•MANTLE
- LOWER and UPPER
•CRUST
INNER CORE
•the very hot, very dense center of our
planet.
•is found about 2,900 kilometers below
Earth’s surface, and has a radius of about
1250 kilometers.
OUTER CORE
•Is made mostly of iron and nickel.
•The outer core is approximately
2300km thick.
MANTLE: LOWER AND
UPPER
•The mantle is the longest part of the earth.
•It is made up of molten rocks called
magma.
•Its total thickness is 2900 km.
CRUST
•the outermost shell of a terrestrial
planet
•The crust is made of
solid rocks and minerals.
THE CONTINENTAL CRUST

•the relatively thick part of the

earth's crust that forms the
large landmasses
OCEANIC CRUST
• the outermost layer of
Earth’s lithosphere that is found under
the oceans and formed at spreading
centers on oceanic ridges, which occur
at divergent plate boundaries.