What is the phenomenon of the earth’s plates moving over time known as? What is the tallest mountain in Europe? Continental drift. Mount Elbrus (18,510 feet). What is the tallest mountain in Africa? What is the tallest mountain in North America? Kilimanjaro (19,340 feet). Mount McKinley (20,322 feet). What is the tallest mountain in Antarctica? What is the tallest mountain in South America? Vinson Massif (16,863 feet). Aconcagua (22,831 feet). What is the tallest mountain in Asia? Earthquakes most typically occur when the edges of two what rub against one another? Mount Everest (29,029 feet). Plates. What is the tallest mountain in Australia? What is the name of the landmass, composed of all of today’s continents, which existed 280 million years ago? Mount Kosciusko (7,310 feet). Pangaea.