The plates are part of the crust, the upper layer of the Earth. The plates are moved by currents in the upper mantle. The plates and flexible upper mantle are referred to collectively as the lithosphere and sit atop the mantle layer called the aesthenosphere.
The top layer of the Earth is called the crust and the layer made of the crust and the upper mantle is called the lithosphere
The earth has tectonic plates are made up of Earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle layer underneath. The crust and upper mantle are called the lithosphere.
the canopy
Diamonds are usually formed in the upper mantle.
The Earth's mantle comprises the bulk of the Earth.
The exosphere is the upper most layer of earths atmosphere. The lithosphere or crust is the outermost layer of the solid Earth.
upper layer is made of mantle of the earth.
The crust?
The crust. I think it's the thinnest too.
The crust?
The layer of the Earth that contains both the crust and upper mantle is called the Lithosphere.
upper layer is made of mantle of the earth.
the plates are apart of the crust,the upper layer of the earth
crust
lithosphere The upper layer of Earth, which includes its thin brittle crust and upper mantle.
The upper crust of earth has two layer the upper one is made up of granite. This is called a slab of lithosphere.