EARTH FROM CORE TO CRUST

EARTH LAYERS DIAGRAM

INNER CORE

• The inner core is a solid metal ball.
• This layer of the Earth approximately 1250 kilometers thick.
• It melts all the outer cores metal and makes it liquid.

OUTER CORE

• It is made of iron and nickel.
• This layer of the Earth 4000-5000 degrees celsius.
• The outer core is 2200 kilometers thick.

MANTLE

• It is the biggest layer of the Earth
• It takes up 84 percent of the Earth.
• It is made of silicates of iron and magnesium, sulphides and oxides of silicon.

CRUST

• It is the thinnest layer of the Earth
• It is the outermost layer of the Earth
• It makes up less than 1% of the Earth's volume.