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asthenosphere The solid, plastic layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere; made of mantle rock that flows very slowly, which allows tectonic plates to move on top of it lithosphere the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle magnetosphere the magnetic field of a planet core a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil mantle the layer of the earth between the crust and the core observation the act of noticing or paying attentiona nickel a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion oceanic crust earths crust located under the ocean continential crust the thick section of the Earth's crust below the continents inner core a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth outter core A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the Earth. upper mantle layer of the earth that is a plasticlike solid yet flows under pressure lower mantle includes the aesthenosphere and is the LARGEST layer of the earth