The lithosphere floats on the asthenosphere like glass on clay. when the clay moves, the glass moves. the movement of the lithosphere is

no

explanation:

since the earth is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator, geodesy represents the figure of the earth as an oblate spheroid. the oblate spheroid, or oblate ellipsoid, is an ellipsoid of revolution obtained by rotating an ellipse about its shorter axis.