alleryStart learning →The slow movement of the big rocky plates of Earth's outer shell is known as what?
AThe water cycle
BThe oxygen cycle
CGlobal warming
DPlate tectonics
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Plate tectonics
Heat-driven flow in the mantle moves the lithospheric plates slowly, and this is plate tectonics.
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