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Airida [17]
3 years ago
11

Why do continents move

Geography
2 answers:
kvasek [131]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

convection currents of rock move the plates its like a soup the cold soup part sinks to heat up near the heating plate and rises once its hotter than the rest of the soup to cool down because its further away from the heat source and this also happens in the mantle

Aleksandr-060686 [28]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

Continents move because of tectonic plates.

Explanation:

A German man, named Alfred Wegener, in 1915, noticed that continents like South America could fit perfectly into Africa. So, he made a theory called "Continental Drift", which was a theory that once, all of the continents were all connected. He also believed that over time, they moved based off of the inner earth. This sparked other scientists to make a better, more updated version of Wegener's theory called "Theory of Plate Tectonics" which explains that landmasses move based off of plate tectonics. Hope this helps you!

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