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LANDFORMS Natural Physical Features of Earth - Coggle Diagram
LANDFORMS
Natural Physical Features of Earth
AEOLIAN LANDFORMS
Are Formed by chemical and mechanical action of wind.
MUSHROOM ROCKS
- (Pedestal) a naturally occurring rock that resembles the shape of mushroom.
LOESS
- is a predominantly silt-sized sediment form by the accumulation of windblown dust.
DUNES
- are mounds or small hills that is made up of sand. It can be crescent, dome, star or parabolic.
FLUVIAL LANDFORMS AND COASTAL LANDFORMS
Are those that underwent sedimentation, erosion or deposition on the river bed.
PENINSULA
-(Byland) a piece of lands that connected to water with the mainland by Isthmus.
DELTA-
a low-lying triangular area located at the point where river and ocean meets.
PLAINS
- this is a flat and broad land areas that have no great changes in elevation.
PLATEAUS-
(Table Lands) are elevated thousand of feet above their surrounding.
MEANDER
- it is landform that bend in a sinuous watercourse of a river.
SEA CLIFFS
- this landform is a high rocky coast that plunge down the edge of the sea.
EROSIONAL LANDFORMS
It is created from exclusively erosional and weathering activities
MESAS
- also called table mountains. Elevated areas with flat tops
CANYONS
- (Gorge) a deep ravine between cliffs that is carve from the river, winds or glacier.
BUTTES
- this landform is also similar to mesas but in terms of their wide, mesas is wider.
MOUNTAINOUS AND GLACIAL LANDFORMS
Are landforms that rise higher than the rest of their surroundings.
VOLCANOES
- are landforms that controlled by geological process and identified by its vent.
GLACIER LANDFORMS
- are the results of action of glaciers. It is huge slow-moving bodies of ice.
HILLS
- are elevated portion of lands that are smaller than mountains.
VALLEY
- (Dale) is a low-lying area of land that is situated between hills or mountains.
