Scientists today believe that the movement of lithospheric plates is caused by:
a. gravitational attraction between Earth and the moon.
b. convection currents in the mantle.
c. Earth's revolution around the sun.
d. the rapid shrinking of Earth's interior.
e. polarity reversals.
B
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