Question

What Causes Fractures In The Litosphere? Select One:

Answer 1

Answer:

The movement of the tectonic plates, which occurs mostly due to heat within the Earth's crust, causes the lithosphere to fracture.

Deeper thermal processes going on inside the Earth's crust result in generation of strain on the lithosphere and hence ruptures it, which we generally visualise in the form of an earthquake.

Answer 2

Answer:

Lithosphere are the “upper mantle and earth crust”

Explanation:

• The earth’s crust is fractured into 20 lithosphere plates. The lithosphere consist of “oceanic crust and continental crust".
• The lithosphere consist of “upper mantle and the oceanic plate” that forms the crust.
• The lithosphere consists of the various plates that are divided into the continental crust and oceanic crust.
• There are many divisions in the lithosphere and the plates are combination of the ocean and continental plates.
• Lithosphere lies on the top of the "asthenosphere".