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How does cycling of matter occur in earth's mantle?
Hot, soft rock rise from the bottom of the mantle towards the top, cools, and sinks back through the mantle.
What is the earth's soft middle layer?
The mantle. Earth's layers are core, outer core, mantle.
What is the plastic-like part of the mantle?
The asthenosphere is made of soft rock and bends like plastic in the mantle.
What is made of soft rock and bends like plastic in the mantle?
The asthenosphere.
What part of the mantle is made of soft rock that bends like plastic.?
A portion of the upper mantle known as the asthenosphere.
What is the soft layer of rock in the earths mantle?
The soft layer of rock in the Earth's mantle is called the asthenoshere. The asthenoshere is a solid but able to flow slowly.
How does cycling of matter occur in earth's mantle?
Hot, soft rock rise from the bottom of the mantle towards the top, cools, and sinks back through the mantle.
What is the Difference between the upper and lower mantle?
Working outwards from the centre: The Earth is believed to be formed of an inner core, outer core, inner mantle, outer mantle, and the crust. The mantle is two thousand miles thick and makes up more than three-quarters of the Earth's volume.
What is the soft layer of rock in the mantle?
The asthenoshpere
Soft layer of rock in the mantle?
asthenosphere
Can the rocks in the crust move around more easily than the rocks in the lower mantle?
No, crustal rock is cold, hard, and brittle while mantle rock is hot, soft, and plastic. Crustal rock fractures under stress while mantle rock deforms and slowly flows under stress.
What layer of earth is made of soft rock and flows easily?
Clay, typically, is the only soft and plastic rock. Unless you were thinking of the Mantle, which forms the bulk of the planet Earth. It is hot enough to be "molten" although in fact is extremely viscous.
What is the earth's soft middle layer?
The mantle. Earth's layers are core, outer core, mantle.
What characteristics does the lower mantle have?
Rocks in the lower mantle are hot and soft (but not molten). The lower mantle flows slowly, at a rate of a few centimeters per year.
What is the plastic-like part of the mantle?
The asthenosphere is made of soft rock and bends like plastic in the mantle.
What is made of soft rock and bends like plastic in the mantle?
The asthenosphere.
Soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats?
As the question uses the word mantle which is a compositional layer of the earth, then the answer is crust.
