EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
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What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
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New continents are continually being createdand destroyed.
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The layout of the continents is the same todayas it has always been
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The continents have always been separate butmay one day drift together to form a singlecontinent
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All the continents were once one continent thatbroke up and drifted apart over hundreds ofmillions of years
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He called this movement continental drift. Pangaea Wegener was convinced that all of Earth’s continents were once part of an enormous, single landmass called Pangaea. Wegener, trained as an astronomer, used biology, botany, and geology describe Pangaea and continental drift.
Detailed explanation-2: -Continental drift is the hypothesis that the Earth’s continents have moved over geologic time relative to each other, thus appearing to have “drifted” across the ocean bed.
Detailed explanation-3: -The four pieces of evidence for the continental drift include continents fitting together like a puzzle, scattering ancient fossils, rocks, mountain ranges, and the old climatic zones’ locations.
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