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There are signs that a [huge / hugely] part of East Africa is starting to break away from the African [continental / continent] . Geologists (people who study the Earth and its land and rocks) studied a deep crack that [walks / runs] along a large part of Zambia. The crack is [called / calling] a rift. It is a major fault in the rock that [covers / covering] Earth's surface. Geologist Mike Daly of the University of Oxford is [studied / studying] Zambia's Kafue Rift. He believes there is [active / activity] in the rift that suggests a giant piece [of / by] land is breaking away. He wrote: "There is evidence [that / what] the fault boundary of the Kafue Rift is active and therefore the Southwest African Rift Zone is too." He warned that this "may be an early indication of the break-up of [dub-Saharan / sub-Saharan] Africa".

The land on Earth is [constant / constantly] moving. Three hundred million years ago, there was just [one / once] huge supercontinent. It was called Pangea. [Under / Over] millions of years, Pangea broke [up / down] . Giant areas of land slowly moved across the oceans [to / for] form the continents we know today. This movement is called continental drift. Rifts are one reason why land masses split [part / apart] . The Kafue Rift in Zambia is part of a 2,500-kilometre-long rift zone [stretching / stretch] from Tanzania to Namibia. The rift is moving [for / at] a rate of about 4.7 mm per year. At this rate, it will take millions of years for Africa to [split in / splitting] in two. Scientists believe that in 200 million years from now, there could [have / be] just one supercontinent again.