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List three differences between Continental Drift vs Plate Tectonics (it's for a bubble map)

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plate tectonics describes the features and movement of the earth's surface in the present and the past whereas continental drift describes the drifting of earth's continents on the ocean bed.

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the theory ofcontinental drift states that the world was made up of a single continent.The theory of plate-tectonics, on the other hand, states that earth's surface is broken into numbers of shifting plates or slabs
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