What material is the earth's core made of?

Answer 1

The earth is made out of mostly heavy elements that were created in earlier larger fast burning stars that exploded.the earth and everything on it is made from the ash of these previous stars.the current smaller sun is made out of mostly very light elements which it burns to make solar radiant energy and to provide the earths life with energy. Look up proton proton cycle for suns energy process.

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Answer 2

Look down beneath your feet. Have you ever wondered what you're really standing on? What is the Earth made of?

If you could take the entire planet, sort it out into its various elements into piles, you'd have the following: 32% iron, 30% oxygen, 15% silicon, 14% magnesium, 3% sulfur, 2% nickel, and then much smaller piles of calcium, aluminum, and other trace elements.

Obviously, we don't breath an iron atmosphere or swim in oceans of silicon. The elements of Earth are layered in the planet.

We live on the outermost layer of Earth, called the crust. This varies in depth between 5 and 75 km. It's mostly made of silicates, with a tremendous amount of oxygen mixed in. In fact, 47% of the Earth's crust is oxygen. The thickest parts of the crust are under the continents, and the thinnest parts are underneath the oceans.

Beneath this crust is the mantle, which goes down to a depth of 2890 km. It's the largest layer on Earth, and mostly consists of silicate rocks rich in iron and magnesium. Volcanoes are places where this mantle wells up through the crust.

Below the mantle is the core, which is broken up into two parts: a solid inner core with a radius of 1,220 km, and then a liquid outer core that goes out to a radius of 3,400 km. Scientists think that the core consists mostly of iron (80%), which pulled together into the middle of the planet during the formation of the Earth, 4.5 billion years ago.

Answer 3

Earths core is made out of molten lava and hard rock, many previous atempts to find a sample were called off and said that there is a risk of distruction and a possible chance of blowing the planet up.

Answer 4

The geosphere can sometimes be a little hard to pin down. It's basically the "deeper" part of the earth comprised of the crust, mantle and core of the earth. It's the densest part of the planet.

Geoshpere: n. - The solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle.

Answer 5

it is made of cheese

You missed GREEN cheese, haha

Actually the moon samples that were taken from the moon are some of the same materials that the earth is made of. What is missing is the decomposition of plant and animal life

that creates our soil.

Plagioclase, feldspar, Olivine are some of the minerals on the moon, which are the same here on earth.

Answer 6

The Earth's core is made primarily of iron and nickel. The outer core is liquid, while the inner core is solid due to the high pressure at the center of the Earth.

Answer 7

The Earth is made of Solids, Liquids and Gases. The parts are core, mantle, and crust. (core is outer core or just the core.)

Answer 8

(1) The inner core of the earth is composed of a solid mass of iron-rich materials and possibly nickel.

(2) The radiance from the sun.

Answer 9

The inner core is composed primarily of an iron-nickel alloy with trace elements.

Answer 10

it is made out of soil, water, lava, air and that is it!!