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What is the name of the theory that proposes continents move over time due to the motion of the lithospheric plates?

Continental Slide

Convection Currents

Plate Drifting

Continental Drift

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Answer:

plate drifting

Step-by-step explanation:

Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's land masses are in constant motion. The realization that Earth's land masses move was first proposed by Alfred Wegener, which he called continental drift.

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Answer:

Plate drifting

Step-by-step explanation:

  • Plate drifting is similar to plate tectonics.
  • Earth's surface consists of different plates.
  • These plates keep moving slowly all time .
  • So slowly the continents have been formed by this tectonics (Still going on)
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