The images above show how the Earth's continents looked 250 million years ago and how they look today. The change in the continents' positions is explained by the modern theory of plate tectonics. The theory of plate tectonics developed in part from an earlier hypothesis about how continents move. What is the name of this earlier hypothesis?
continental drift
natural selection
earthquake development
evolution
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The name of the earlier hypothesis on how continents move is "continental drift".
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