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Is the earth's crust one piece?

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Anonymous

∙ 10y ago
Updated: 5/3/2022

The crust is not one single piece. It is broken up into different plates of different sizes and shapes. This is what allows them to move and thus plate tectonics occurs.

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Kaylah Ward ∙

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∙ 3y ago
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