Question

What is the difference between plate tectonics and continental drift?

Answer 1

Continental Drift and Plate-Tectonics Theory. According to the theory of continental drift, the world was made up of a single continent through most of geologic time. ... Wegener contended that the relative positions of the continents are not rigidly fixed but are slowly moving—at a rate of about one yard per century.

Answer 2

Plate tectonic was suggested recently with more evidence than continental drift about the movement of continents.