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    This document defines and describes various landforms including mountains, valleys, plateaus, glaciers, hills, loess, deserts, shorelines, and plains. Mountains are elevated portions of the Earth's crust with steep sides and exposed bedrock, and come in different types such as fold, fault-block, and volcanic mountains. Valleys are lower areas between elevated land scoured by gravity, water, and ice that take a U or V shape. Deserts are very dry areas with little precipitation or vegetation where plants like cacti can be found. Plains are flat lands with small elevation changes while plateaus are also flat but at a higher elevation than surrounding land. Hills are smaller than mountains with confined summits.

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    This document defines and describes various landforms including mountains, valleys, plateaus, glaciers, hills, loess, deserts, shorelines, and plains. Mountains are elevated portions of the Earth's crust with steep sides and exposed bedrock, and come in different types such as fold, fault-block, and volcanic mountains. Valleys are lower areas between elevated land scoured by gravity, water, and ice that take a U or V shape. Deserts are very dry areas with little precipitation or vegetation where plants like cacti can be found. Plains are flat lands with small elevation changes while plateaus are also flat but at a higher elevation than surrounding land. Hills are smaller than mountains with confined summits.

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    Landforms: Sarah Jibrell Grade Eight

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    This document defines and describes various landforms including mountains, valleys, plateaus, glaciers, hills, loess, deserts, shorelines, and plains. Mountains are elevated portions of the Earth's crust with steep sides and exposed bedrock, and come in different types such as fold, fault-block, and volcanic mountains. Valleys are lower areas between elevated land scoured by gravity, water, and ice that take a U or V shape. Deserts are very dry areas with little precipitation or vegetation where plants like cacti can be found. Plains are flat lands with small elevation changes while plateaus are also flat but at a higher elevation than surrounding land. Hills are smaller than mountains with confined summits.

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    Landforms

    Sarah Jibrell
    Grade eight
    LANDFORMS
    Mountains
    Valleys
    Plateaus
    Glaciers
    Hills
    Loess
    Deserts
    Shorelines
    Plains

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    Mountains
    A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally
    with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although
    definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a
    limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically
    rising at least 300 metres above the surrounding land.
    Types of Mountains:
    Fold mountains
    Up warped mountains
    Fault-Block mountains
    Volcanic mountains

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    Mountain
    photos
    Valleys
     Valleys are depressed areas of land–scoured There are 3 common types of valleys
    and washed out by the conspiring forces of
    gravity, water, and ice. Some hang; others are V-shaped valleys,
    hollow. They all take the form of a "U" or
    U-shaped valleys
    "V."
    flat-floored valleys.

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    Deserts
    Things you can find in
     A very dry area with very little
    precipitation and vegetation.
    deserts:
    Desert plants, like cacti.
    Dunes (longitudinal and
    transverse dunes)
    Oasis’s

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    Plains
    Flat lands that have only small
    changes in elevation.

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    Plateau A large,flat area of land that is higher than
    the surrounding land.

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    Hills
    Hills are landforms that rise above the
    surrounding terrain and have relatively
    confined summits but are generally understood
    to be smaller than mountains. There is no
    formal distinction between the two.

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    Loess
    Insome parts of the world, windblown dust
    and silt blanket the land. This layer of fine,
    mineral-rich material is called loess. Loess is
    mostly created by wind, but can also be formed
    by glaciers. When glaciers grind rocks to a fine
    powder, loess can form. Streams carry the
    powder to the end of the glacier.

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    Glaciers
    A glacier is a large, perennial accumulation of
    crystalline ice, snow, rock, sediment, and often
    liquid water that originates on land and moves
    down slope under the influence of its own weight
    and gravity.

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    Shorelines
    a feature of the land that is created by erosion.
    Usually, this refers to landforms created by
    water erosion, such as waves. This erosion can
    be exacerbated occasionally by the wind.
    Coastal landscapes are created by the presence
    of several coastal landforms.

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    Thank you
    Sarah Jibrell
    references: social studies book and grade 3 science book

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