Continental Plates Drifting

This is the continental plates drifting from one another.  As you can see, the plates were all once connected and slowly started to move away from each other.  The plates are always moving, but they move so slow that we can't even notice them moving at all.  The few times you can feel them moving is when they collide with one anther, slide past one another, or separate from one another.  All of these cause earthquakes shaking the ground that we stand on.  Also, these plates move because the continental plates are floating on the liquid mantle that never stops moving so the plates never stop moving.  So, as you see in the picture the reason for these plates connecting and separating is because the crust is made-up of these continental plates, and these plates sit on the liquid mantle that never stops moving, causing the crust to always be moving.