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What is the outer crust?

The outer crust is the final layer around the earth. It is also the thinnest layer


What is the name of the outerlayer of the lithosphere?

The crust is the outer layer of the lithosphere.


What is the scientific name for earth's outer layer of surface soil or crust?

The scientific term for Earth's outer layer of surface soil or crust is the lithosphere. This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle, forming the rigid outer shell of the Earth.


What does the word lithosphere refer to?

The lithosphere is the outer part of the earth. It consists of the earth's crust and the upper mantle of the earth.


Do you live on the lithosphere?

crust. its the outer most layer of the earth


Is the lithosphere and asthenosphere boundary above or below the Moho?

The boundary between the asthenosphere and the lithosphere is normally below the Moho (which marks the boundary between the crust and the mantle). The exception to this is below mid-ocean ridges where the moho and the lithosphere / asthenosphere boundary are at the same depth.


Is the lithosphere the inner core of the Earth?

No. The lithosphere is the outer part of Earth, consisting of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle.


Is Earth's lithosphere in the inner and outer core?

No, Earth's lithosphere is not found in the inner and outer core. The lithosphere is the rigid outer layer of the Earth, consisting of the crust and the upper part of the mantle. The inner and outer core are layers beneath the lithosphere, composed of molten iron and nickel in the outer core and solid iron and nickel in the inner core.


What is the term for the cool outer layer of the earth made up of the crust and the upper part of the mantle?

Lithosphere


The crust and uppermost mantle make up the rigid outer layer of earth called the?

The uppermost mantle and the crust makes the lithosphere.


What is the solid outer crust layer and the top portion of the mantle layer of the Earth called?

The solid outer crust layer of the Earth is called the lithosphere. The top portion of the mantle layer, just beneath the lithosphere, is called the asthenosphere.


What is a thin outer shell of the earth consisting of the crust and the ridge upper mantel?

CRUST (lithosphere)