• Question: whats in the middle of the earth ?

    Asked by anon-174761 to Yewande, Tim, Melanie, Hayley, Carl, Alex on 12 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by anon-174229.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      The middle of the earth is a really, really hot core of solid metal.

    • Photo: Tim Craig

      Tim Craig answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      Alex is right – the centre of the Earth, what we call the ‘inner core’ is a sphere of solid metal, mostly iron. Its solid, but really, really hot (something like 6000 degrees C). That is surrounded by a layer of liquid metal (the ‘outer core’), before we then get to the parts of the Earth that are made up of rock.

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