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Landforms and Landscape

The document discusses the differences between landforms and landscapes. Landforms are naturally formed surface features of the Earth with characteristic shapes, including large features like plains and mountains, as well as smaller features like hills and canyons. Landscapes include six compositional elements: landforms, vertical structures, horizontal structures, vegetation, water, and climate. The document also lists numerous erosional and depositional landforms produced by rivers, including canyons, cliffs, floodplains, deltas, and meanders.

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Landforms and Landscape

The document discusses the differences between landforms and landscapes. Landforms are naturally formed surface features of the Earth with characteristic shapes, including large features like plains and mountains, as well as smaller features like hills and canyons. Landscapes include six compositional elements: landforms, vertical structures, horizontal structures, vegetation, water, and climate. The document also lists numerous erosional and depositional landforms produced by rivers, including canyons, cliffs, floodplains, deltas, and meanders.

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Submitted to: Sir Shakeel Mehmood Submitted by: Akbar Dad Babar 438 Saleem Khan 429 Q1:

What is the difference between Landform and Landscape? Ans: Landform is the any recognizable naturally formed surface feature of the earth. Landforms have a characteristic shape and can include such large features as plains, plateaus, mountains, valleys as well as small features such as hills, canyons and eskers. Landscape is an umbrella term which includes six main compositional elements: Landform, Vertical Structures, Horizontal Structures, Vegetation, Water, and Climate. Q2: Enlist Depositional and erosional landform of river. Ans: Erosion landforms Landforms produced by erosion and weathering usually occur in coastal or fluvial environments, and many appear under those headings as well.

butte canyon cave cliff cuesta dissected plateau erg exhumed river channel gulch gully hogback

hoodoo inverted relief inverted topography lavaka limestone pavement malpais monadnock mesa natural arch pediment pediplain

potrero ridge roche moutonne rock formations shut-in structural bench structural terrace tea table tepui tor valley

Fluvial landforms
Fluvial landforms include: ait alluvial fan anabranch floodplain fluvial terrace gully natural pool proglacial lake rapid

arroyo and (wash) bar bayou bench braided channel Carolina Bay cave cliff drainage basin endorheic basin exhumed river channel

island lacustrine plain lake natural levee marsh meander oasis oxbow lake peneplain dry lake pond

riffle river rock-cut basin shoal spring stream swamp valley and vale wadi waterfall watershed

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