Concept of geomorphology:
Is the study of the landscape. Geomorphology entails the systematic description of landforms, the analysis of the processes that form them, as well as understanding the function landforms and their response to changes to changes in energy.
What is the difference between landscape and landform?
That landform is an individual feature (slope, valley, mountain or other) and the landscape is a mountainous terrain, the combined effect of numerous landforms.
Extragenic processes that form landscape:
Processes produce landforms after outer space impacts, such as meteors. It could produce massive extinctions, craters and large impact structures.
Endogenic processes that from landscape
Processes are produced by internal forces of the Earth like volcanism and diastrophism (tectonism, orogenesis and epierogenesis)
Exogenic processes that form landscape
Processes are produce by external forces of the planet, such as weathering and erosion.
What is 1 example of landforms?
A mountain.
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