Plate tectonics may affect organic evolution because movement of plates may cause a change in ____.

Moving tectonic plates can alter landforms, climate, and the separation or connection of habitats. These environmental changes can affect which organisms survive and reproduce, influencing organic evolution. The correct choice is “the environment”; natural selection is a process that may respond to environmental change, not what plate movement directly changes in this sentence.

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