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What do we call the outermost shell of the earth made up of the earths crust

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Lithosphere

Step-by-step explanation:

Together the uppermost mantle and the crust act mechanically as a single rigid layer, called the lithosphere. The lithospheric outer shell of Earth is not one continuous piece but is broken, like a slightly cracked eggshell, into about a dozen major separate rigid blocks, or plates.

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