The soft layer of rock in the Earth's mantle is called the asthenoshere. The asthenoshere is a solid but able to flow slowly.
No. The outer core and part of the mantle are liquid, but that's about it.
The asthenoshpere
asthenosphere
The asthenoshpere
asthenosphere
It's only soft and plastic in that it is not as hard as the brittle rock of the crust and uppermost mantle.
The plastic-like layer of the upper mantle is called the asthenosphere.
As the question uses the word mantle which is a compositional layer of the earth, then the answer is crust.
The asthenoshpere
asthenosphere
A soft layer of molten rock beneath Earth's surface is known as the asthenosphere. It is a semisolid layer of the upper mantle that lies below the rigid lithosphere. The asthenosphere allows for the movement of tectonic plates.
It's only soft and plastic in that it is not as hard as the brittle rock of the crust and uppermost mantle.
The relatively soft layer of the upper mantle is called the asthenosphere
The plastic-like layer of the upper mantle is called the asthenosphere.
asthenosphere
As the question uses the word mantle which is a compositional layer of the earth, then the answer is crust.
asthenosphere
asthenosphere
The relatively soft layer of the upper mantle is called the asthenosphere
No layer is truly made of liquid rock. The mantle is sometimes, inaccurately, said to be liquid rock when it is in fact solid, albeit relatively soft. The outer core is liquid, but it consists of liquid metal, not rock.