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Plate
Tectonics
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Sections of the crust move
relative to each other slowly
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Evidence: similar rocks in
different places
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Sensitive instruments can
measure yearly motion
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Pangaea 200 million years
ago
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Laurasia, Gondwanaland 100
million years ago
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Compare to age of Earth 4-5
billion years -- may have been earlier versions of Pangaea
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