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What is another name for the earths crust and upper mantle?
It is called the lithosphere.
What is the name of the outerlayer of the lithosphere?
The crust is the outer layer of the lithosphere.
What part of the earth behaves like a brittle solid?
The crust and the upper part of the mantle are the solid part of the Earth called the lithosphere.
What is the name of ocean crust?
oceanic crust.
What is the name of the crust not under the ocean?
it is actually called continental crust
What is the name of the crust and upper mantle?
Lithosphere
What is another name for the earths crust and upper mantle?
It is called the lithosphere.
What is another name for the upper mantle of the earth?
The Earth's Crust
What is the name for rigid blocks of Earth's crust and upper mantle?
Tectonic plates.
What is the another name for crust?
The Earth's crust is also known as the "lithosphere" but that term geologically includes the upper elastic part of the mantle.
What is the name of the upper rocky layer of Earth that includes the crust and the top part of the mantle?
the lithosphere
What is the name of the outerlayer of the lithosphere?
The crust is the outer layer of the lithosphere.
What is the name of upper suface of the earth?
The lithosphere, it consists of two parts, a thin outside layer of solid rock called the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle.
What is another name for the upper part of the mantle?
the upper part of the mantle is called the lithosphere. this layer also includes the crust.
What part of the earth behaves like a brittle solid?
The crust and the upper part of the mantle are the solid part of the Earth called the lithosphere.
What is the scientific term for the upper crust of the Earth?
The crust is the outermost solid shell of the planet. It is chemically different from the underlying mantle. The scientific name for the crust is the lithosphere. It has an average thickness of 30-35 kilometers in continental areas and 5 kilometers in oceanic areas.
what is the name off the plant that live at lithosphere?
The lithosphere is The crust and upper mantle that make up the earth's solid outer layer. Plants found in the lithosphere are aloe vera, Christmas cactus, neem, orchids, etc.
