Question

The theory that describes how earths outer layer is broken up into moving tectonic plates. It also explains how plates shape earths surface

Answer 1

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into large slabs of solid rock, called “plates,” that glide over Earth's mantle, the rocky inner layer above Earth's core. Earth's solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the lithosphere