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What are large sections of earth's crust and upper mantle called?
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∙ 14y ago
Lithospheric plates.
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What is the layer of earth beneath the crust called?
The layer of the Earth below the crust is called the mantle. The mantle is the thickest layer of the Earth with a depth of 2,890 kilometers.
What is the moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle?
a moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle is called a ridge that's when the ocean floor has underwater volcano that erupts
What is the crust and the upper mantle are called?
The crust and uppermost hard rocky mantle, together, is known as the lithosphere, which is above the plastic-like upper mantle area known as the asthenosphere.
Earths crust and the very top of the mantle combined?
The Earth's crust and the very top of the mantle combined is called the lithosphere. It is the rigid outermost part of the Earth.
What is crust and upper mantle of the EARTH?
The upper mantle is in between the lower mantle and the earths crust Crust- the outer most solid shell of the earth. The Uppermost mantle and the earth's crust form the lithosphere.
What is sections of the earths crust called?
what what
What is also called the earths crust?
The mantal
What is the layer of earth beneath the crust called?
The layer of the Earth below the crust is called the mantle. The mantle is the thickest layer of the Earth with a depth of 2,890 kilometers.
The layer of rock between earths crust and core?
its called the mantle
What are the sections called that are composed of the crust and part of the upper mantle?
it is called the lithosphere
What is the moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle?
a moving portion of earths crust and upper mantle is called a ridge that's when the ocean floor has underwater volcano that erupts
The earths crust is made of rock sections called?
Continental plates.
What is another name for the earths crust and upper mantle?
It is called the lithosphere.
What are sections of the world called?
From outside to inside, it goes: crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called?
They are broken into sections which we call Plates.
What is under the earths surface and in the earths crust?
mantle
Is earths mantle hotter or cooler than the crust?
The mantle is hotter than the crust.
