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Learn how the world is divided into continents
Pangea: Early Triassic Period paleocontinent
Watch Earth's continents move, from 650 million years ago to 250 million years in the future
How does plate tectonics change Earth's surface?
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Quick Quiz: This Land Is Your Land
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Learn how the world is divided into continents
The distribution of the seven continents.
Video: Created and produced by QA International. © QA International, 2010. All rights reserved. www.qa-international.com
Watch Earth's continents move, from 650 million years ago to 250 million years in the future
A time-lapse representation of Earth changing through geologic time, from the late...
Video: Adapted from C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
How does plate tectonics change Earth's surface?
A general discussion of plate tectonics.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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world map
Map identifying the world's continents.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Pangea: Early Triassic Period
Paleogeography and paleoceanography of Early Triassic time. The present-day coastlines...
Adapted from: C.R. Scotese, The University of Texas at Arlington
paleocontinent
Infographic showing evidence of submerged continents that formed and broke up during...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
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