what are landforms and give examples?
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One of the features that make up the earth's surface, such as a plain, mountain, or valley
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This is a great way to begin understanding the different forces that shape the land.  It is important to remember how the rocks came to be found, Metamorphic rocks from Michigan that may have been dug up from a deep quarry or found on the surface exposed by glacial action.  In N Carolina they could be sedimentary rocks exposed by water erosion.  In Florida they could very likely be calcium carbonate deposited by ancient coral reefs.  A simple understanding of these and other rock forming processes would make a prize winning 4th grade report.  Good Luck!
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You can type in geomorphology and use the various terms in a search engine.\nYou could read your Geology 101 text book.
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See http://www.edrnet.com/reports/topomapsymbols.pdf or http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/nmpstds/acrodocs/qmaps/5psym202.pdf for symbols used in topographic maps.
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That's a very broad question.  Here's a short summary that can be added to:\n1.  Deserts\n2.  Mountains\n3.  Valleys\n4.  Savannas\n5.  Islands\n6.  Atolls\n7.  Hills\n8.  Caverns\n9.  Outcrops\n10. Glaciers
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carnivore-cougar, weathering-whirlwinds, ecosystem-environment, erosion-earthquake (not very near) ?
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Oh! Deltas! Estauries are sunken river mouths. Good examples: China's Pearl River Delta, Argentina's La Plata, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.\n\nBird's foot or digitate, that's where the river branches out at the mouth. Nile River Delta, the classic. Niger River Delta, and Mississippi Delta. \n\nArcuate. Hmmmm...I'm guessing it's roundish, but...I'm going to have to look it up! Yes, it's arc shaped, and the Ganges Delta is an example. Darn it! The Nile is, too! Oooh! Nice photo illustrating the Nile Delta article! Oh the Niger delta is, too! Guess that leaves the Mississippi Delta as a bird's foot!
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Could you give a few examples please?
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Air masses form over parts of the earth's surface called source regions, which are large bodies of water or landmasses with relatively uniform topography, often ranging hundreds of thousands of square miles in area.
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Varied.  There are mountains, and there are sandy plains.  There are raging volcanos, and quiet deserts, fertile expanses, and deep unexplored crevices.
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hills, mountains, valleys, sand dunes
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A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. A mountain is generally much higher and steeper than a hill, but there is considerable overlap, and usage often depends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain as a peak with a topographic prominence over an arbitrary value: for example, the Encyclopædia Britannica requires a prominence of 2,000 feet (610 m).
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There have been tremendous efforts to create world map.Early maps shown only the continents of Europe,North Africa China and India.It was after the discovery of America the landmass was known.Southern most tip of America was found when Megallean crossed the Strait.Navigaters had to travel along coastline to visualize the size and extent of landmasses.This was done in case of Australia.These were some important milestones but conformed maps could only be built after invention of satellite imagery.
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Here are the best simple diagrams I have seen that show all four general types of mountain building processes in one place:\nhttp://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/fichter/Wilson/orogytyp.html\n\nHere is a series of simple diagrams with explanations:\nhttp://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/platetec/orogeny.htm\n\nHere is a very complex set of slides (41 total) that show a plate tectonic type reconstruction of mountain building and associated tectonic processes:\nhttp://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/platetec/orogeny.htm
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Delta\nA delta is a landform where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary or lake, building outwards (as a deltaic deposit) from sediment carried by the river and deposited as the water current is dissipated. Deltaic deposits of larger, heavily-laden rivers are characterized by the river channel dividing into multiple streams (distributaries), these divide and come together again to form a maze of active and inactive channels\n\n Estuaries\nEstuaries are aggrading depositional sedimentary bodies at the mouths of rivers. Many present river mouths became estuaries after the post-glacial sea-level rise inundated the former deltas. When that happened, fluvial channels became subject to tidal influence. Especially in meso- and macro-tidal regimes, the fluvial processes became subordinate to marine redistribution and tide-dominated estuaries could form.
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1.   Detailed, precise description of a place or region.\n   2. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map, indicating their relative positions and elevations.\n   3. A description or an analysis of a structured entity, showing the relations among its components: In the topography of the economy, several depressed areas are revealed.\n   4.\n         1. The surface features of a place or region.\n         2. The surface features of an object: The topography of a crystal.\n   5. The surveying of the features of a place or region.\n   6. The study or description of an anatomical region or part.
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Orogeny is the building of mountains.  Most mountains are formed when one techtonic plate subducts under another pushing the top plate up.  Mount Everests includes sedimentary rock that was part of the sea.  The subduction can sweep seawater and silt under a plate setting up the conditions for huge volcanoes as magma is formed and rises through the stratta above as in the Andes.