Continental Plates
When two lithospheric plates move apart, a divergent boundary is formed. This process results in the creation of new oceanic crust as magma rises to fill the gap between the plates, forming a mid-ocean ridge.
When an earthquake occurs, lithospheric plates either slide past each other, collide, or move apart along their boundaries. The stress accumulated along the plate boundaries is released suddenly, causing the plates to deform and generate seismic waves that we feel as an earthquake.
The process by which lithospheric plates move apart, creating spaces that are filled with hot magma, is called seafloor spreading. This occurs at mid-ocean ridges where new oceanic crust is formed as magma rises from the mantle and solidifies at the surface.
Aesthenosphere
They constantly move. EDIT: Lithospheric plates move only about a few centimeters a year. Hope this helps! ~SLL
Yes.
They are called tectonic or lithospheric plates.
Faults and folds just support the idea that there lithospheric plates are in motion because folds appear when the plates move towards each other. The faults appear when the plates drift apart and cause an empty space.
5 centimeters.
5 centimeters per year
Plates move apart on divergent plate boundaries.
Lower mantle is the surface on which the lithospheric plates move around earths surface.