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Collect from Internet the maps showing the movements of lithospheric plates and include them in the digital album.

Lithospheric plates are the regions around the earth’s crust and upper mantle (mantle remains, i.e., Magma melts and continuous convection happens) that is splintered into plates. Lithosphere the outermost shell of the earth is broken to form tectonic plates. Some of the major lithospheric plates are - African plate, Antarctic plate, Eurasian plate, Indo-Australian plate, North American plate, Pacific plate and South American plate.


In the map below, different lithospheric plates are shown.


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