Which of the following accurately summarizes the cause of continental drift?Tectonic plates are in motion due to convection currents in Earth's mantle. This motion causes the continents to slowly drift away from each other.Earthquakes and other natural disasters caused the continents to separate from each other over time.One large tectonic plate broke into several plates due to earthquakes and carried the continents with them.Erosion over long periods of time caused the shorelines to recede and separate from each other, allowing water to flow between them.
