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What is the name of the mechanical layer that is composed of the crust and the top portion of the mantle?
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The lithosphere.
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What is the name of the mechanical that is composed of the crust and the top portion of the mantle?
The lithosphere.
Earth is composed what of main three layers?
Crust, mantle, and core
What comprises the Earth's lithosphere?
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Why does Earth's crust sit on top of the mantle?
The crust lies on top of the mantle because it is composed of less dense materials than the mantle is. The crust is essentially floating on the mantle.
What layer of earth is made up of crust and mantle?
The lithosphere is composed of the crust and hard uppermost attached mantle.
Plates are composed of the?
crust and part of the upper mantle
What is portion of earth between the crust and the core?
The mantle.
Is the lower portion of the crust and the upper portion of the mantle called the core?
It is the Asthenosphere
What contains the lower mantle?
The mantle extends to the core-mantle interface at approximately 2900 km depth. Thus, the mantle contains the lower portion of the lithosphere, the asthenosphere, and the mesosphere. The crust is made of the upper portion of the lithosphere.
What is the moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle?
a moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle is called a ridge that's when the ocean floor has underwater volcano that erupts
Are plates composed of the crust and part of the upper mantle?
That is correct.
What sections are composed of the crust and apart of the upper mantle?
lithosphere
