On the Moon, there are no continental plate tectonics.

在月球上没有大陆板块运动。

Earth has enough water to lubricate its plate tectonics.

地球有足够的水来润滑它的板块构造运动。

That's thanks to something called plate tectonics.

这要归功于板块构造学说。

Which means, I'm as old as plate tectonics.

这意味着，我和板块构造学一样老。

Plate tectonics created heat and pressure, that produced rock lighter than the ocean floor.

地壳板块运动的不断加热和挤压从海平面上升起大量岩石、陆地。

Mars doesn't have plate tectonics today, but there's evidence it once did.

火星现在没有板块构造运动，但有证据表明它曾经有过。

So why is there no plate tectonics on Venus, which is the same size as Earth?

那么，为什么和地球一样大小的金星上没有板块构造运动呢？

Of course, the Earth's plate tectonics and water are not the only things to set it apart.

当然，地球的板块构造和水并不是唯一使它与众不同的东西。

In fact, plate tectonics only became widely accepted in the late 1960s – more than half a century after Wallace's death.

事实上，板块构造学到了 1960 年代末期才被广泛接受，此时已经是华莱士去世后半个多世纪以后了。

But the moon is mostly dry and lacks plate tectonics.

但月球大部分是干燥的，缺乏板块构造。