Difference between continental drift and plate tectonics

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> Continental Drift - theory proposed by Wegener that Earth was once a super continent (Pangea) then slowly drifted away 200-250 million years ago.

> Plate Tectonics - Drifting continents and the motion of the sea floor both result from the fragmentation and movement of the outer rigid shell of Earth called the lithosphere

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