Question

give a brief description of the interior

of the earth

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Answer 1

Answer:

Earth's interior is generally divided into three major layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core.

The hard, brittle crust extends from Earth's surface to the so-called Mohorovicic discontinuity, nicknamed the Moho. The Moho is not located at a uniform depth, but about 10 kilometers (6 miles) below the seafloor and about 35 kilometers (22 miles) beneath the surface of continents.

Beneath the Moho is the mantle, the viscous layer that makes up more than half of Earth's volume.

The mantle is divided from the core by the Gutenberg discontinuity, about 2,880 kilometers (1,798 miles) beneath Earth's surface. The outer core is molten and liquid iron and nickel, while the inner core is solid and much more dense than either iron or nickel at the surface.