Question

1. which layer of earth is made up of the tectonic plates, which hold and move the continents and oceans?

○ the mesosphere
○ the lithosphere
○ the outer core
○ the asthenosphere

Explanation:

The lithosphere is the rigid, outermost layer of Earth, composed of the crust and the uppermost mantle. It is broken into the tectonic plates that carry continents and oceanic crust, and these plates move atop the softer asthenosphere below. The mesosphere refers to a layer of the atmosphere or the lower mantle (not the plate-bearing layer), the outer core is a liquid metallic layer deep inside Earth, and the asthenosphere is the ductile layer that the lithospheric plates move on, not the layer containing the plates themselves.

Answer:

the lithosphere