How continents shift position on Earth's surface.<span>Set forth in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a geophysicist and meteorologist, continental drift also explained why look-alike animal and plant fossils, and similar rock formations, are found on different continents. </span>
What the larva and pupa stages have in common is that both stages take place in water. This is where the insect evolves until it becomes fully grown and then leaves water.