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The ________ is earth's outermost rocky layer that is broken into plates.

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The earths outer layer is the Crust
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The litosphere is the earth's outermost layer.  This is not a whole continuous piece as its crust and topmost mantle is made up of hard and rocky outer surface and is sub divided into tectonic plates.  The lithosphere stretches to about 60 miles.  
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