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Earths thin rocky outer layer is its .?
crust
What is another word for earths outer surface?
Another word for Earth's outer surface is "crust."
What is the name of the earths thinnest layer?
The crust, more specifically the lithosphere.
What is another word for the earths crust?
Another word for the Earth's crust is lithosphere. It is the solid outermost layer of the Earth.
Compared to earths continental crust earths oceanic crust is?
Earth's oceanic crust is thinner, denser, and younger than Earth's continental crust. It is primarily composed of basaltic rock, whereas continental crust is made up of less dense granitic rock. Oceanic crust is constantly being formed at mid-ocean ridges and destroyed at subduction zones.
how are boiling milk and earth crust the same?
Earths crust can break under pressure and milk can break its foundation from pressure, both are different types of pressure, but still
How do deposits of minerals form deep inside the earths crust?
by heat and pressure
What process causes Earth's crust to be continuously formed by volcanic activity?
Pressure from the earths core
What causes the pressure to increase as you go deeper below the earths crust?
Because the density of the force increases.
What is the size of the earths crust?
The Earths crust is approximately 650 km deep.
When rocks are subjected to extreme pressure and heat without melting within earths crust they may become?
Magma
How do earthquakes cause changes in the earths crust?
It breaks through the crust, and sometimes goes in the core, simply because all of the force and pressure from the plates rubbing together.
Why Are Volcannoes Found Where They Are?
majority of valcanoes follow the edges of the tectonic plates, which are the weaker parts of earths crust, therefore volcanoes form durin the crust giving away to the pressure built up. other volcaoes form other places due to weak parts of earths crust
What is the average psi on the earths crust?
Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is about 14.7 PSI. So, then what is the pressure at about 5,645 feet below the surface of the earth?
What causes the earths crust to rise and fall?
The sudden vibration in the plates inside the crust causes the earths crust to rise & fall.
What is under the earths surface and in the earths crust?
mantle
Why is the stress the earths crust?
The earth's crust is not stress
