Science · True or False?
The answer is True.
This ongoing movement is driven by plate tectonics: Earth's outer shell is broken into large tectonic plates that glide over the hot, slowly flowing rock of the mantle, pushed and pulled by convection currents created by heat from Earth's core. Fun fact: they drift at an average rate of 2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2 inches) per year, roughly the speed at which your fingernails grow.