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A valley is a hollow piece of the earth brought together by mountains, most valley on dry land were formed by running water like streams or rivers. |
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A plateau is a large highland area of slightly level land seperated from surounding steep slopes. |
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Mountains are formed by volcanoes, earosion, and disturbances or uplift in the Earth's surface. |
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Plains are nearly level stretches of land that have no great changes in elevation, it can be mostly grass, or it can be mostly desert depending on what region it is in. |
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Hill's are an elevation of the Earth that have a certain summit, but the summit is not as great as a mountain's summit. |
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Loess is a recent deposi of silt usually the color of a yellowish brown, silt is fine sand or Earthly matter. |
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Glaciers are frozen chunkes of ice that float slowly over land.
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A beach is a landform along a shoreline, sea, lake, or river. |
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Erosion is when soil and rock are removed from the Earth's surface by natural processes such as wind or water flow.
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Uplift is a verticle elevation in the Earth's surface done by natural causes. |
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