Earth\'s Interior 1) Explain three different ways that oceanic crust and contine

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Earth's Interior

1) Explain three different ways that oceanic crust and continental crust are different. Where would you go to find very thick crust? Very Thin crust?

2) How do S waves allow us to determine that the mantle is solid?

3) Why is the earth's core one-sixth of Earth's volume but one-third of its mass?

Plate Tectonics

4) Why is oceanic lithosphere subducted while continental lithosphere is not?

5) Why would oceanic crust that is closer to the ridge that formed it always subduct under oceanic crust that is further from the ridge that formed it?

Explanation / Answer

generally continental crust is much thiker and less denser than the oceanic crust. and continental crust is much older than the oceanic crust

we can find very thick crust under mountains and vey thin cust under basins

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