Question

describe the earth structures with the labelled diagram?​

Answer 1

The structure of the Earth is divided into layers. These layers are both physically and chemically different. The Earth has an outer solid layer called the crust, a highly viscous layer called the mantle, a liquid layer that is the outer part of the core, called the outer core, and a solid center called the inner core. The shape of the earth is an oblate spheroid, because it is slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator.

The boundaries between these layers were discovered by seismographs which showed the way vibrations bounced off the layers during earthquakes. Between the Earth's crust and the mantle is a boundary called the moho. It was the first discovery of a major change in the Earth's structure as one goes deeper.

The crust is the outermost layer of the Earth. It is made of solid rocks. It is mostly made of the lighter elements, silicon, oxygen, aluminium. Because of this, it is known as sial (silicon = Si; aluminium = Al) or felsic.

The mantle is the layer of the Earth right below the crust. It is made mostly of oxygen, silicon and the heavier element magnesium. It is known as sima (Si for silicon + ma for magnesium) or mafic. The mantle itself is divided into layers.

The uppermost part of the mantle is solid, and forms the base of the crust. It is made of the heavy rock peridotite. The continental and oceanic plates include both the crust proper and this uppermost solid layer of the mantle. Together this mass makes up the lithosphere. The lithosphere plates float on the semi-liquid aesthenosphere below.

Upper aesthenosphere: magma

Lower aesthenosphere

Lower mantle

The Earth's core is made of solid iron and nickel, and is at about 5000–6000 °C.

Outer core is a liquid layer below the mantle.

Inner core, is the very center of the Earth.

Answer 2

Answer:

Just like an onion, the

earth is made up of

several concentric

layers with one inside

another . The

uppermost layer over

the earth’s surface is

called the crust. It is the

thinnest of all the

layers. It is about 35 km.

on the continental

masses and only 5 km.

on the ocean floors.

The main mineral

constituents of the

continental mass are

silica and alumina. It is

thus called sial (si-silica

and al-alumina). The

oceanic crust mainly

consists of silica and

magnesium; it is therefore

called sima (si-silica and

ma-magnesium)

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