AP Environmental — Unit 4: Earth Systems and Resources

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Core

Dense mass of solid nickel, iron, and radioactive elements that release massive amounts of heat

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Mantle

Liuid layer of magma surrounding the core, kept liquified by intense heat from the core

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Aesthenosphere

Solid, flexible outer layer of mantle beneath the lithosphere

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Lithosphere

Thin, brittle layer of rock floating on the top of the mantle (broken up into tectonic plates)

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Crust

Very outer layer of lithosphere, earth’s surface