The Famous Toy Makers SUPERSHEETS
1 Which of these statements best summarizes the section titled "Three-layer Cake"?
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Earth is like a cake. The mantle is the cake. The core is the center of the cake. It is a very
hot layer. The crust is a thin layer of icing on the cake.
Earth is made up of three layers. The top crust is the thinnest layer of Earth. The thickest
layer, mantle, sits below the crust. Core is the hottest layer found at the center of Earth.
Earth looks like a cake. The mantle is the middle layer. It is also the thickest part. It
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makes up 84 layers out of 100 layers of Earth. The core is the hottest layer.
Earth has 100 layers. The top layer, crust, is only 30 miles thick, but the mantle is 1800
D miles thick. So, mantle is the thickest layer of Earth. But most of the living things live on
the crust.