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IN THIS CHAPTER

Recognizing Earth’s many spheres

Understanding how scientists study Earth’s interior

Describing Earth’s core, mantle, and crust

You could describe the earth as a ball of rock spinning through space, but the earth is made of much more than just rock. Planet Earth is multilayered. If you could travel from the moon to the earth’s core, you’d pass through layers that contain gas, liquid, rock, and metal. In this chapter, I briefly describe the various layers of the earth, including what scientists know about Earth’s interior layers (and how they learned about those layers).