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Earth Has Several Lithospheric Plates That Gradually Move in a Process

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Earth has several lithospheric plates that gradually move in a process called plate tectonics. How many such plates are there on the Moon?


A) One; the entire lithosphere is a single plate.
B) Five; one for each of the major lunar seas (maria) .
C) Six; one for the highlands (terrae) and one for each of the major lunar seas (maria) .
D) Two; the region of the near side occupied by the seas (maria) forms one plate, and the rest of the Moon (the bulk of the highlands, or terrae) forms the other.

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