The Change from Thinking the Continents Are Stationary to Understanding

question 22

Multiple Choice

The change from thinking the continents are stationary to understanding that the outer layer of the earth moves slowly nearly all of the time occurred primarily because ________.

• A)we got space travel and could see the motions
• B)we improved our surveying instruments significantly
• C)we had two world wars and learned a lot from them about the oceans that explained how continents moved
• D)we began to make global observations that required recognition that the continents and oceans had not always been in their current positions

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