What layer of the earth makes up oceanic and continental plates and what layer are the continents sliding on?

Question

What layer of the earth makes up oceanic and continental plates and what layer are the continents sliding on?

Answer 1

The layer which makes up the plates is the lithosphere.  They are sliding upon the upper mantle, on a layer called the asthenosphere.

Answer 2

Crust: Solid

Crust: Solid

Mantle: Liquid

Answer 3

well the mantle melts crust in way and when it kinda melted the continents move around....over and over

Answer 4

My geology class was multiple choice.  Litho graph rings a bell.  This is sooooo gooogle.