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| q | Continental Drifting Theory |
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| Alfred
Wegener proposed that all the continents |
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| (Pangea) and then broke and slowly drifted to their |
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| current positions. |
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| q | Plate
Tectonics |
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| The branch of tectonics
that deals with the |
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| processes by which the lithosphere plates move |
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| and interact with each other is called plate |
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| tectonics. |
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