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Yes. Well, more or less rigid.
Edwin Mitchell
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∙ 8y agoNo. The outer core surrounds the inner core. The lithosphere is at the top. It consists of the crust and the rigid uppermost part of the mantle.
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What is the description off the lithosphere?
The lithosphere is the solid outer section of Earth, which includes Earth's crust, and the underlying cool, dense, and rigid upper part of the mantle.
What is the rigid part of the tectonic plates that is made up of oceanic crust or continental crust and the upper mantle?
the lithoseshere
Rigid outer covering of plant cell?
This is known as the cell wall. It is not present on the cells of animals.
Why do plate tectonics occur?
i do not think anyone knows in the whole world then...come really that's why they invented this site
How do plate tectonics causes earthquakes?
The concept of plate tectonics has revolutionized the explanation about how earthquakes occur in Earth Sciences. Plate tectonics tells us that the Earth's rigid outer shell (lithosphere) is broken into a mosaic of oceanic and continental plates which can slide over the plastic aesthenosphere, which is the uppermost layer of the mantle. The plates are in constant motion. Where they interact, along their margins, important geological processes take place, such as the formation of mountain belts, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Is the earths lithosphere the rigid outer shell of the planet?
The atmosphere is an outer layer of gas on a terrestrial planet. A hole in the ground caused by a meteor hitting a planet is a crater.
Is earth's lithosphere the rigid outer shell of the planet?
Yes. Well, more or less rigid.
What is the weaker hotter zone beneath the lithosphere that allows for motion of earths rigid outer shell?
The asthenosphere
Is Earth's lithosphere in the inner and outer core?
No. The lithosphere is composed of the crust along with the uppermost rigid mantle.
What is the earth's solid rigid outer layer that is composed of crust and mantle?
The Lithosphere comprises both Upper Mantle and Crust.
What is the lithrosphere?
The correct spelling is Lithosphere - its the rigid outermost crust of a planet
What is the rigid shell of rock that surrounds the earth called?
The Earth does not have a "rigid" outer covering, it has an atmosphere.Below the atmosphere is the crust which is made of tectonic plates. However there plates are NOT rigid and to describe them as such would be incorrect, they deform and fold.
What is the uppermost mantel make up the rigid outer layer of earth called?
lithosphere
Rigid layer of earths surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle?
lithosphere
Is the lithosphere a solid or a liquid?
according to scientists, the lithosphere is solid
Plates are composed of earths crust and?
dirt and rigid rocks
What are the 2 divisions of the crust?
The lithosphere is the rigid outer part of a planet and comes in separate sections called tectonic plates. It includes the outer layer or the crust and the middle layer or the mantle.
