PROCESSES AND

LANDFORMS ALONG
PLATE BOUNDARIES
 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
 AEOLIAN LANDFORMS
-ARE FORMED BY THE CHEMICAL AND
MECHANICAL ACTION OF WIND.

-THE WORD IS DERIVED FROM THE

GREEK GOD OF WINDS, AEOLUS.
 DUNES
-MOUNDS OR SMALL
HILLS MADE UP OF
SAND.
-THEY MAY BE
SHAPED IN A DOME,
CRESCENT, STAR,
LINEAR, OR
PARABOLIC.
 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 OCCURING
ROCK THAT RESEMBLES
THE SHAPE OF A
MUSHROOM.
 EROSIONAL
LANDFORMS
-ARE CREATED FROM EXCLUSIVELY
EROSIONAL AND WEATHERING
ACTIVITIES.
 MESA
-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.
 CANYONS
-SOMETIMES CALLED AS
GORGE, IS A DEEP
RAVINE BETWEEN CLIFFS
THAT IS OFTEN CARVED
FROM THE LANDSCAPE
BY A RIVER, WIND, OR
GLACIER.
 MOUNTAINOUS AND
GLACIAL LANDFORMS
-ARE THOSE LANDFORMS THAT RISE
HIGHER THAN THE REST OF THE
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 DALES 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.
FLUVIAL LANDFORMS AND
COASTAL LANDFORMS
-FLUVIAL LANDFORMS ARE THOSE THAT
UNDERWENT SEDIMENTATION,EROSION, OR
DEPOSITION OF THE RIVER BED
 DELTA
-A LOW-LYING
TRIANGULAR AREA
LOCATED AT THE
MOUTH OF RIVERS
WHERE IT MEET 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 SINOUS
WATERCOURSE OF RIVER.
-IT IS FORMED WHEN
MOVING WATER IN
STREAM ERODES THE OUT
BANKS THEN WIDEN ITS
VALLEY.
 SEACLIFFS
-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.
 THANK YOU!
GROUP MEMBERS:
CASSANDRA DE GUZMAN
JOHN GABRIEL MARTIN
MARC JULIAN BAGATSOLON
JONATHAN HILARIO
NATHANIEL BAUTISTA