The slow shifting of the continents and the ocean floors is explained by ____

a. Milankovitch theory
b. chemical weathering–CO2 feedback
c. the Theory of Plate Tectonics
d. the Maunder minimum
e. the greenhouse effect


ANSWER: c

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