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1. What is continental drift?

• Continental drift is the gradual movement and formation of continents.

2. what name is given to the processes associated with the plate movements?

• Convection currents

3. what is the name of the super continent that existed over one billion years ago?

• Rodina

4. when did pangea exist? 

• About 750 million years ago

5. which present-day continents were part of Gondwana?

• antartica, south america, africa, asia, 

6. At what speeds and what direction is the Australian continent moving?

• Australia moves 1cm every year, and is moving south

7. How old are australias dessert landscapes?

• less than one million years old

8. What is the main agent of erosion in Australia?

• the main agent of erosion in australia is wind

9. What is geomorphology?

• it is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them.

10. What does a geomorphologist do?

• A geomorpologist studies landforms to determain the process that forms and transforms them.