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continents move about as plates of crust and upper mantle, on more mobile layer of asthenophere in the mantle. Movement driven by mantle convection and isostasy.

Bumps between continents = mountain chains

bump continental with oceanic = island arc vocanoes and subduction of oceanic plate

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The continental drift was to help explain how the fossil of animals and plants were found on different continents. Alfred Wegener developed a theory in 1912 suggesting that the continents were once connected as a supercontinent.

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The gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.

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Continental drift is a theory that Alfred Wengener, a German scientist, came up with. It stated that the continents were once all together, a Pangaea, but spilt and move apart over time.

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Continental Drift is the movement of earth's continents relative to each other. Hope this helped!

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Continental drift is the uneven heating of Earth's mantle which causes the tectonic plates to move. Every year, these plates move about two and a half centimeters.

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the Earth's surface is made up of large moving plates

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