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The plates are able to shift and flex because the float on a soft layer called asthenosphere.

Explanation:

Asthenosphere is the layer of the Earth's mantle that is below the lithosphere.

It is a ductile and weak part of the Earth that is about 180km thick.

It is the layer of solid rock that is been pressurized and heat the rocks can flow like a fluid in response to deformation.

Plates are able to shift and flex because it is flexible and soft.

your body is trying to warm itself up. or more precisely, sensors in your skin send messages to your brain to generate heat to your body.

cells use diffusion to get substances in and out of themselves. that diffusion will occur across the cell membrane or the outer covering of the cell. because we are talking about the surface of the cell, surface area and volume are  important factors here. as a cell increases in size, its surface area and volume increase as well.  we call that the surface area to volume ratio (sa: vol).  but the catch is that  volume increases at a greater rate than surface  area. in other words, as a cell gets bigger, the sa: vol gets smaller. so a really small cell like bacteria is mostly cell membrane (surface) with very little contents (volume). a really big cell like an egg, is mostly insides with a super thin membrane. so what ends up happening is that the cell cannot efficiently diffuse all of the stuff it needs in/out to survive. therefore cell size is limited to about 100mm. so how do we make organisms bigger than 100mm? cells divide! by dividing and becoming multicellular, organisms are able to grow!   check out the diagrams i attached to see the effect of sa: vol. i hope this ! good luck!