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How can the presence of seven continents on the earth's surface be explained?

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Step-by-step explanation:

The seven continents were originally one large continent, called a supercontinent, and with the help of plate tectonics, have shifted into their present-day states. Ice ages have changed the continents as well, since the sea level was much lower prior to it. The rising water level covered a fair amount of land.

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the atmosphere (oxygen), the lithosphere (rock), and the hydrosphere (water

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