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Standard IX
Geography
Continental Drift Theory
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Who proposed the Continental Drift theory?

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Galileo Galilei
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Alfred Wegener
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Georges Lemaitre
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The correct option is B Alfred Wegener
In the early 20th Century, Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist and geophysicist, proposed the Continental Drift theory that partially explained the present arrangement of continents and ocean basins on the Earth.

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