1.4 Geographical perspective on the origins of Australia

1. The movement of the Earth's continents in a process known as continental drift.
2. The tectonic processes associated with plate margins that are responsible for creating major land form features.
3. Rodinia existed over 1 billion years ago.
4. Pangaea existed around 300 million years ago.
5. South America, Africa, India, Antarctica and Australia.
6. Australia is moving North at about 5cm per year.
7. Less than one million years old.
8. The aridity water is the main agent of erosion.
9. The study of landforms.
10. A geomorphologists studies landforms to determine the processes that form and transform them.