地球科学10

EARTH SCIENCE 10
By James Clifford 's Group
and Landforms
along
Plate Boundaries
Here are some important
word in this Tophic

1. Geomorphology
• Is the scientific study of landforms and the
processes that shape them.
·TOPOGRAPHY
- The study of the current terrain features of a
region and graphic representation.
·LANDFORMS
- Natural physical features of Earth
 1. Aeolian Forms
·Are formed by the chemical and
mechanicalaction of wind.

· The word is derived from the Greek God

of winds, Aeolus.

·Examples are Dunes, Loess, and

MushroomRocks.
 Dunes Examples of
·Are mounds or small hills made up of sand.
Aeolian
·They maybe shaped in a dome, crescent, star,
linear, or parabolic Forms
Loess
·Predominantly silt-sized sediment formed by the accumulation of
windblown dust.
·It appears yellowish or brownish in color and exhibits "cat steps".
MUSHROOM ROCK
·Also called rock pedestal, is a naturally occurring
rock that resembles the shape of mushroom.
PAOAY SAND DUNES Loess Mushrooms Rocks
2. Erotional Landforms
·Are created from exclusively erosional and
weathering activities.

Examples are messas, buttes, and canyons.

EXAMPLES OF EROTIONAL LANDFORMS
MESAS
· Also called as table mountains, mesas are elevated areas of
land with a flat top and sides that are usually steep cliffs.
BUTTES
·This type is almost similar to mesas as it has flat-topped hill and steep sides.
The difference is that buttes cover a smaller amount of area when compared to
mesas.
 CANYON
·Sometimes called as gorge, is a deep ravine
between cliffs that is often carved from the
landscape by a river, wind, or glacier.
Mesas Buttes Canyon
3. MOUNTAINOUS LANDFORMS
and GLACIAL LANDFORMS
Mountain Landforms
·Are those landforms that rise higher than
the rest of their surroundings.
VOLCANOES
·Are landforms that are controlled by
geological processes that form them and
continually act on them after their formation.

Identified from its opening at the top called,

vent.
HILLS
·Are elevated portions of land that are formed by
geologic activities such as faulting.They are
smaller than mountains.
VALLEY
·Or dale is a low-lying area of land situated
between hills or mountains.
· They are usually formed by the actions of rivers
and glaciers.
·Could be V-shaped or U-shaped.
GLACIAL LANDFORMS
·Are the results of the actions of the glaciers.
Glaciers- are huge slow-moving bodies of ice.
Mauna loa Chocolate Hills
Riff Valley Glacier
4. FLUVIAL LANDFORMS and COASTAL
LANDFORMS
Fluvial landforms are those that underwent
sedimentation, erosion, or deposition on the
river bed.
DELTA
·A low-lying triangular area located at the mouth of rivers
where it meets an ocean, sea, or an estuary.
PENINSULA
·Also called byland or biland, a piece of land that
projects into a body of water and is connected with the
mainland by an isthmus.
MEANDER
·Is a bend in a sinuous watercourse of river.
It is formed when moving water in stream erodes the out
banks then widens its valley.
SEA CLIFFS
·Are high rocky coasts that plunge down to the edge of the sea.
They are the results of erosional actions of wind and water.
 PLAINS
·Are flat and broad land areas that have no great
changes in elevation when measured with reference
to the sea level.
PLATEAUS
·Also known as table lands or flat-topped mountains,
are portions of land elevated thousands of feet above
their surroundings.
Delta Peninsula
Meander Sea Cliff
Plain PLATEAUS
Thank you so
much for
listening!

- Toph
"May your dreams be larger than mountains and
may you have the courage to scale their
summits."

-HARLEY KING