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The Earth is made up of Tectonic Plates, these are large sections of land (Continental Plates) or ocean (Oceanic Plates). The Mantle (magma beneath the Earth's crust) is heated from the core of the Earth, where it is hottest, causing a convection current, this is when a fluid (magma in this case) is heated unevenly and the hot fluid rises, causing the cooler fluid to sink in its place (forming a circular current of heating, rising, cooling and sinking.)
This current effectively drags the Tectonic Plates along in differenbt directions to each other, causing them to move apart or together, sometimes even alongside each other.
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What is the very slow movement of the continents is called?
Continental Drift
Can you use the word continental drift in a sentence?
Continental Drift is causing the continents to move around.
The theory that continents can drift apart and have done so in the past is known as?
The theory that continents can drift apart and have done so in the past is known as "continental drift." This theory suggests that continents were once united in a single landmass called Pangaea and have since moved to their current positions over time.
Is continental drift and Pangaea the same thing that happend in or on the continents?
Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents over time, while Pangaea was the supercontinent that existed about 335 million years ago before breaking apart into the continents we see today. So, they are related but not the same thing. Continental drift refers to the ongoing movement of continents, while Pangaea is a specific event in Earth's history.
Pangea and continental drift?
Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago and eventually fragmented into the continents we know today due to the process of continental drift. Continental drift is the theory that suggests the Earth's continents move slowly over time due to the motion of tectonic plates in the Earth's crust. This movement has caused the continents to drift apart, leading to the formation of the current continental configuration.
What is the volcanic and the drift continental theory?
the Continental Drift Theory is the slow movement of the Earths continents. A.K.A the continents drift
The theory that continents can drift apart from oneanother?
Continental Drift
What is contunental drift?
a shift of continents
Why the continents separated?
Continental drift.
What is the very slow movement of the continents is called?
Continental Drift
What primary force that causes the seafloor to spread and continents to drift?
Geothermal Drift.
What is called when continents move?
Continental drift.
Do continents drift slowly on earths upper mantle or earths core?
Continents drift on top of the upper mantle. The core is much further down.
Is there a shorter way to write about continental drift?
How about this: continents drift. That's about as short as I can make it.
Can you use the word continental drift in a sentence?
Continental Drift is causing the continents to move around.
Why do continents migrate at the poles?
because of continental drift
What is it called when continents break apart?
Continental Drift
