u Geomorphology: is concerned with the scientific study of landscapes and landforms on Earth's surface such as mountains, valleys and others, and the processes acting on them.
GEO MORPH OLOGY
EARTH FORM THE SCIENCE OF
Difference between landscape and landform
Landscape | Landform |
1- The physical elements of landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea. 2- Living elements of land cover including vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions. 3- Landscapes help define the self image of a region, its sense of place that differentiates it from other regions | Landform are a natural features of landscape, natural physical features of earth´s surfaces : valleys, mountains, hills, glaciers, plataus |
Extragenic processes that form landscape
Extragenic : processes produce landforms after outer space impacts such meteors.
Importance:
u Impact structure and could massive extinctions and craters
Endogenic processes that form landscape
u Endogenic processes: Processes that operate from the earth.
– Examples:
u Diastrophism: Tectonics orogenesis and epierogenesis
u Orogenesis: Horizontal plate movement
u Epierogenesis: Vertical plates movement
u Volcanism: Intraplate hotspot activity (lava plateaus and volcanoes
Exogenic processes that form landscape
u Erosion : is the breakdown of land around
u Hydrologic cycle and related fluvial processes
u Glaciation: is the formation,movement and recession of glaciers
u Waves
u Others erosion agentes: Wind and the activity of men
All This information was gather from Social Studies book.
All This information was gather from Social Studies book.
