Multiple Choice
Who was Alfred Wegener?
A) the Flemish cartographer who wrote Thesaurus Geographicus
B) the first explorer to make the journey to the New World in 1492
C) the French geographer who found coal in North America and Europe
D) the first geologist to suggest that the Earth's internal heat drives vast, circular currents in the mantle that move lithospheric plates
E) the first geologist to formulate a global explanation of how the continents assumed their present locations and shapes
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