Critical Thinking Questions: 1. How will you relate the distribution of mountain ranges in Figure 2 with the distribution of earthquake epicenters and volcanoes? 2. Now that you have seen the location of the volcanoes, mountain ranges, and majority of earthquake epicenters, what do you think is the basis of scientists in dividing Earth’s lithosphere into several plates? 3. What do you think earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building have in common? ​