The document discusses the theory of continental drift proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1915. It states that Wegener suggested that the continents were once joined together in a single landmass called Pangea, which then broke apart and drifted to their current positions. It provides diagrams showing the movement of continents over time and identifies the seven major and eight minor tectonic plates that make up the Earth's lithosphere. The theory was initially met with skepticism but was widely accepted by scientists starting in the 1960s due to evidence such as the matching boundaries between continents.