What Are Tectonic Plates?
If you could wind the clock back by a few million years, you would find that our planet used to look rather different than it does now. You would find that countries and even whole continents had different shapes and positions. There was even a time when all the land mass in the world was together in a single super-continent.
The reason for this change is that our planets surface is dynamic. It is still moving now, albeit in amounts that are so small that we don’t notice. It is moving thanks to plates that cover the planet and these move thanks to movement deep below the surface. These plates are known as tectonic plates, and they come with some fascinating facts.
