Landform Quiz

The largest Major plate

• Pacific

• Euroasian

• North America

• African

can deform and reshape driven by heat energy coming from the core and is located below the lithosphere

• mesosphere

• outer core

• asthenosphere

• lithosphere

a narrow strip of land that connects two larger

landmasses and separates two bodies of water

• Peninsula

• Isthmus

• island

• Archipelago

Group of islands surrounded by water

• Peninsula

• Isthmus

• island

• Archipelago

A hill of sand built by either wind or water flow.

The displacement of solids by wind, water and ice

• erosion

• weathering

Constructive Process:

• Crustal Deformation

• Erosion & Weathering

• Sediment Desposition

• Volcanic Activity

Harry H. Hess Theory

• Continental Drift

• Raisin Theory

• Seafloor Spreading

James Dwight Dana Theory

• Continental Drift

• Raisin Theory

• Seafloor Spreading

Alfred Wegener Theory

• Continental Drift

• Raisin Theory

• Seafloor Spreading