Later,Alfred Wegener said the continents had once been part of a huge area of land he called Pangaea.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Each is meant to represent the light of freedom as it shines on the seven seas and seven continents of the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

He was influenced at the age of nine by a painting in his school of the highest mountains on the seven continents.

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It includes over twenty musicians from four continents who are connected through the message in the music.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

Scientists who study the Earth tell us that the continents and ocean floors are always moving.

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Also,the continents and the ocean floor are not made of the same kind of rock.

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He proposed that the two continents might have been one, then split apart.

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He first proposed that the continents had moved and were still moving.

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Wegener also noted differences between the continents and the ocean floor.

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Continents move about the Earth like huge ships at sea.

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They flew almost fifty thousand kilometers over five continents.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

When the plates move, the continents move with them.

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Other earthquakes take place at the edges of continents.

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The findings are from researchers on two continents.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

The continents are made of a granite-like rock.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

Sometimes the continents are above two plates.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Wegener investigated the idea that continents move.

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The continents split as the plates move.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

As Tia recalls, joining the band and performing in more than 90 venues across five continents was a dream come true.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

Meanwhile,expedited efforts are going forward on several continents to develop an effective vaccine for the new strain of influenza.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

We need to figure out some way to transfer resources, mostly in the form of technology, north to south, so that countries like India or China or continents like Africa have some decent shot at development without having to go through the fossil fuel era."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21