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Desert Landscapes and Landforms Explained

A landscape is a section of the Earth's surface defined by geographical features such as landforms. Landscapes can be natural, like coastal areas where land meets the sea, or human-made, like cities. Hot desert landscapes are typically found along the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn due to their location along the subtropical regions. Landforms are shaped by various geological forces - mountains form from tectonic plate movement, rivers are formed by flowing water, and deserts result from large daily temperature fluctuations that cause rock erosion. Coastal landforms can be used for tourism, farming shellfish, and extracting resources like gas and oil.

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Desert Landscapes and Landforms Explained

A landscape is a section of the Earth's surface defined by geographical features such as landforms. Landscapes can be natural, like coastal areas where land meets the sea, or human-made, like cities. Hot desert landscapes are typically found along the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn due to their location along the subtropical regions. Landforms are shaped by various geological forces - mountains form from tectonic plate movement, rivers are formed by flowing water, and deserts result from large daily temperature fluctuations that cause rock erosion. Coastal landforms can be used for tourism, farming shellfish, and extracting resources like gas and oil.

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Write this in your exercise book.

10/2/23

LI: We are learning about the different types of landscapes

SC: I will be able to explain what a landscape is

Landscapes:

A landscape is a section of the earth’s surface and is made up of a variety of geographical features
(known as a landform) that define and characterise it; landscapes can be natural (e.g. coastal and
mountain landscapes) or human (e.g. neighbourhoods and cities)

Tectonic plates:

Immense, slowly moving pieces that make up the Earth’s surface (or crust)

Erode means to wear away

Construct is to build up

Coastal landscape means when the land meets the sea

(e.g. Beaches)

River landscapes are used for agriculture (farming) and are used for crops because it is very fertile as
it has a lot of minerals and nutrients to grow food.

Desert Landscape is a desert area land that receives no more than 250 millimetres of rain per year,
deserts cover about one-third of the earth’s surface and contain some of the most uninhabitable
regions on the planet there are two types of deserts cold and hot, hot deserts are deserts located
along the tropics of cancer and Capricorn and cold deserts are closer to the poles (south n north) and
are shaped by the movement of ice in large glaciers and ice sheets.

Landform: A natural geographic feature or shape that appears on the Earth’s surface (e.g. dune, hill,
Valley, beach or cave)

Glacier: A river of ice in the mountain and polar landscapes

Ice sheet: A layer of ice covering a large area of land for a long period
Mountain Landscapes
Ridge

Glacier: A river of ice in the mountain and polar landscapes

Volcano

Desert Landscapes
Butte

Mesa

Oasis: where there is a source of water that supports vegetation and provides a respite from the
dry and barren surroundings

In your words describe landscapes.


A landscape is a section of the earth’s surface and is made up of a variety of geographical features

Identify what landscape is typically found along the tropics of cancer and Capricorn.

Hot Desert landforms are typically found along the tropics of cancer and Capricorn.

For each of the landforms describe the forces behind how they are made.

A mountain landscape is formed with tectonic plates pushing against each other or one tectonic plate goes up and the
other goes down.

A river landscape is formed from the natural movement of a water system like a river or stream

There are two ways that coastal landforms can form: either through erosion (the wearing away of land by waves and wind)
or through weathering (the building up of land through deposits of sand and other materials).

Large temperature differences between day and night put a lot of pressure on the rocks, which causes them to break apart
and create deserts. Even though it rains in deserts infrequently, there are intermittent downpours that could result in flash
floods.
Geomorphic Processes

Geomorphic: relating to the form of the landscape and other natural features of the earth’s surface

Geomorphic processes are processes that alter landforms and examples are erosion, deposition, tectonic activity and
avalanches.

Mountain landforms

Mountain ranges when there are multiple mountains

Volcanoes are openings in the earth’s crust

Glaciers are frozen water

Desert landforms

Oasis is an area with a water supply

Hamada area covered with boulders

Wadi dry watercourse in a narrow valley

River landforms

River has a waterway

Lake large body of water

Waterfall river water-spill

Coastal landforms

Cliffs steep rocks

Island area of land

Coral reef under the water ridge


COASTAL LANDFORMS CAN BE USED FOR

 Tourism economic value


 Farmed oysters for jewellery (aesthetic value)
 Gas and oil (economic value)

Terraced:

Formed a flat area on a sloping piece of land, (such as a mountain face)

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