Final answer:
Lithospheric plates move in different directions, creating divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries.
Step-by-step explanation:
Lithospheric plates move around the globe in different directions and come in many different shapes and sizes. Their movement rate is millimeters to a few centimeters per year, similar to the rate that your fingernails grow.
Motion between tectonic plates can be divergent, convergent, or transform. In divergent boundaries, plates are moving away from each other; in convergent boundaries, plates are moving toward each other; and in transform boundaries, plates are sliding past each other. The type of crust on each plate determines the geologic behavior of the boundary.
When we extrapolate present-day plate movements 50 million years into the future, we can expect some major changes to the globe.