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This is easy. So basically, there are plates of the Earth's crust moving around, and that is why continents are moving around. When two continental plates collide, then since the two plates are of the same density, they both lift Each other up. For Example, the Himalayas are made by the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate because they are convergent, or they are ramming into each other.

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