plate tectonics the surface is made up of slow-moving plates of land magma molten rock beneath the Earth’s surface (lava underground) lava magma that is above the Earth’s surface summer fault tilt towards the sun break in the Earth’s crust where movement occurs Pangaea supercontinent where all the continents were combined 8 plates number of plates on the Earth’s surface continental drift mountain formations caused by pressure from the mantle created by weathering