California Academy of Sciences: Plate Tectonics - Shaping the Continents
California Academy of Sciences

Billions of years ago, Earth had supercontinents—land masses made of multiple continents merged together.

NASA Space Place: Tectonic Forces
NASA

Find out why the arrangement of Earth’s continents shifts slowly over time!

ThoughtCo: Reverse, Strike-Slip, Oblique, and Normal Faults
ThoughtCo.

In essence, faults are large cracks in the Earth’s surface where parts of the crust move in relation to one another.