Question

The three major relief features that characterise the continents are

Answer 1

Answer:

Four major divisions in the ocean relief are:

• the continental shelf,
• the continental slope,
• the continental rise,
• the Deep Sea Plain or the abyssal plain.

Answer 2

Answer:

The major relief features of the Earth—its continents and ocean basins—were created by the movements of plates on the surface of the Earth. Geologists use the term lithosphere to describe an outer Earth shell of rigid, brittle rock, including the crust and also the cooler, upper part of the mantle.