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? a. continental drift b. earthquake development c. evolution d. natural selection

Developed from the 1950s through the 1970s, plate tectonics is the modern version of continental drift, a theory first proposed by scientist Alfred Wegener in 1912. Wegener didn't have an explanation for how continents could move around the planet, but researchers do now.

giant impact theory - the moon was formed from the collision between earth and another mars-sized body.

colliding planetesimals hypothesis - the moon was formed from the same cloud of material as earth.

capture hypothesis - the moon was locked into orbit by earths gravity as it was passing by it.

accretion hypothesis - the moon was formed from collisions and combining of planetesimals.

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