Explain the continental drift hypothesis.

Continental drift is the movement of the Earth’s continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents “drift” was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, when he noticed that the shapes of the continents on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean appear to be similar (for example, Africa and South America). Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin and others have noted the same thing before. In the 1960s, a geological explanation for this movement was discovered.