Geography of Greece. It is a peninsular and mountainous country located in Southern-Eastern Europe, in the Balkans peninsula. The country has the largest coastline in Europe (13,676km) due to its numerous islands. Greece has a total of 2,000 Greek islands but only 168 are inhabited.
Harry Hess created the theory of plate tectonics moving along the ocean's floor.
CONTINENTAL DRIFT. Go to an interactive plate tectonics puzzle. Go to a printable quiz on continental drift. In 1915, the German geologist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift, which states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core.The fossil record supports and gives credence to the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics.ONTINENTAL DRIFT. Go to an interactive plate tectonics puzzle. Go to a printable quiz on continental drift. In 1915, the German geologist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift, which states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core.