Alphabetical
mantle
[noun]
The middle portion of the interior of the Earth, starting below the crust at 5-70 km below the Earth’s surface and continuing to a depth of 2900 km. The mantle is composed mainly of the rock peridotite.
Appears in modules:
- Absorption, Distribution, and Storage of Chemicals
- Adaptation
- Atomic Theory II
- Biodiversity I
- Chemical Bonding
- Composition of Earth's Atmosphere
- Data Analysis and Interpretation
- Defining Minerals
- Description in Scientific Research
- Discovery and Structure of Cells
- DNA I
- Earth Structure
- Ellen Ochoa
- Factors that Control Earth's Temperature
- Franklin Chang Díaz
- History of Earth's Atmosphere I
- History of Earth's Atmosphere II
- Kevin Arrigo
- Mario Molina
- Membranes I
- Modeling in Scientific Research
- Ocean Currents
- Plates, Plate Boundaries, and Driving Forces
- Properties of Minerals
- Properties of Solids
- Scientific Controversy
- Scientists and the Scientific Community
- The Hydrologic Cycle
- The Nitrogen Cycle
- The Practice of Science
- The Rock Cycle
- The Silicate Minerals
- Theories, Hypotheses, and Laws
- Using Graphs and Visual Data in Science
- Utilizing the Scientific Literature
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