Question

Difference between earth's crust and lithosphere

Answer 1

Answer:

The crust (whether continental or oceanic) is the thin layer of distinctive chemical composition overlying the ultramafic upper mantle. ... The lithosphere includes the crust (whether continental or oceanic) and the uppermost part of the upper mantle.

Also, ocean crust is made of denser minerals than continental crust. The tectonic plates are made up of Earth's crust and the upper part of the mantle layer underneath. Together the crust and upper mantle are called the lithosphere and they extend about 80 km deep.

Answer 2

Difference between earth's crust and lithosphere are--

Earth crust

1) The crust is a thin layer of distinctive chemical composition overlying the ultramafic upper mantle .

2) It is composed with great variety of igneous , metamorphic , sedimentary rocks . it is under lain by the mantle.

Lithosphere

1) The rigid outer part of earth , contanining the crust and mantle layer.

2) It is composed of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of thousand of the year ago .