What are some of landforms?

Landforms are natural physical features of the earth's surface which can be grouped into two broad categories:

1. Depositional landforms:

- Alluvial fans: Deposits of sediment that form where a fast-moving river meets a slower-moving body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

- Beaches: Gently sloping deposits of sand or gravel that are found along the shores of oceans, lakes, and rivers.

- Coasts: The landforms found at the edge of a continent, where it meets the ocean.

- Deltas: Landforms that extend into a body of water formed from the deposition of sediment carried by a river.

- Floodplains: Flat areas of land that are adjacent to rivers and are periodically flooded.

- Glacial moraines: Ridges of sediment that are formed by glaciers.

- Sand dunes: Wind-blown mounds of sand.

2. Erosional landforms:

- Buttes: Isolated, flat-topped hills with steep sides.

- Canyons: Deep, narrow valleys with steep sides that have been carved by rivers.

- Cliffs: Steep, vertical faces of rock.

- Escarpments: Long, steep slopes that separate two areas of land that are at different elevations.

- Fjords: Long, narrow inlets of the sea bordered by steep cliffs, formed by glacial erosion.

- Glacial cirques: Bowl-shaped depressions in mountains formed by glacial erosion.

- Mesas: Flat-topped mountains with steep sides that are smaller than buttes.

- Peaks: The highest point of a mountain or hill.

- Plateaus: Large, flat areas of land that are elevated above the surrounding terrain.

- Ridges: Long, narrow elevations of land that are higher than the surrounding terrain.

- Valleys: Low areas of land that are surrounded by higher ground.