Geomorphology is the study of the landscape. It entails the systematic description of landforms, the analysis of the processes that form them, as well understanding the function landforms and their response to changes in energy. Geomorphology is divided in 3 main concepts: geo, that means earth, morph that means form, and ology, that means the science of, and all that together could form an easiest meaning of geomorphology that is “the science of earth form”.
Because of time and history landforms envolve through time. The age of the structure, length of time one or more processes have been in effect, and the sequences of geologic events all play a role in the evolution of a landscape.
-Landform: is a individual feature (slope, valley or mountain or other).
-landscape: is a mountainous terrain, the combined effect of numerous landforms.
-Endogenic: processes are produce by internal forces of earth like -volcanism and diastrophism.
-Extragenic: processes produce landforms after outer space impacts, such as meteors.
-Exogenic: processes are produces by external forces of earth such as weathering and erosion.
Erosion: is the process that break things down. Erosion is produced bye hydrologic cycle and related fluvial processes.
Sources used to write these post.
Bustos, J. (2011). SOCIAL STUDIES SEVENTH GRADE STUDY GUIDES.San Jose: Costa Rica.
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