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• 7 Major Plates


  • Eurasian
  • North American
  • African-South American
  • Antarctic
  • Pacific plate
  • Australian
• Lithosphere


  Composed of the crust and the upper layer of the mantle called the asthenosphere
• Asthenosphere


  • Property of plasticity: moves slowly
• Plates float on the asthenosphere beneath


  Causing the lithosphere to move constantly in slow motion
• Crust


  The outer part of the Earth
• Oceanic crust


  • Thin part of the Earth's crust located under the oceans and made up of basaltic rocks
• Continental crust


  • Thick part of the Earth's crust located under the continents and made up of granite rocks