How did tectonic plates help shape the early earth?

Answer 1

They were the reason that continents were created.

There was once a single super-continent called Pangaea. During the Triassic and Jurassic periods, tectonic shift (of plates) broke this entity apart and created the continents we see today.

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Answer 2

Levi Acosta

In addition to influencing the distribution of minerals and the evolution of Earth's surface and climate, tectonic plate movements—subduction, collision, and spreading—were responsible for the formation of continents, ocean basins, and mountain ranges in the early Earth.

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