Thursday, February 24, 2011

1.4 Questions


1.4 Questions

Activities:

1. The movement of the earth's continents is known as continental drift.
2. The name of the process that makes tectonic plates shift is called convection currents.
3. The name of the super continent that existed 1.2 billion years ago was called Rodini.
4. Pangaea existed about 750 million years ago. 
5. Gondwana consisted of these countries which are still around today; South America, Africa, India, Antarctica and Australia.
6. Australia is moving at about 5 cm per year and we are heading up north. 
7. Australian desert landscapes are less than 1 million years old. 
8. Water is the main agent of Erosion in Australia. 
9. The branch of Geography that is involved with landforms.
10. They study landforms to determine the process of how that landforms came to be.

No comments:

Post a Comment