Landforms & Landscapes AND Tectonic Plate Boundaries

What are landforms?

Natural features of the Earth's surface formed by geological processes like tectonic activity, erosion, and weathering.

Name 7 types of landscapes.

Mountain landscapes, coastal landscapes, riverine landscapes, desert landscapes, karst landscapes, tropical rainforest landscapes and glacial landscapes.

What is a landscape in geographical terms?

The visible part of the Earth's surface characterized by a combination of natural features such as mountains, hills, rivers, and vegetation.

What occurs at a constructive plate boundary?

Two tectonic plates move apart, allowing magma to escape, leading to seafloor spreading, mid-ocean ridges, and underwater volcanoes.

What landforms are created at destructive plate boundaries?

Mountains, volcanoes, and ocean trenches.

How do mountains form at collision plate boundaries?

Mountains form when tectonic plates collide and push upwards due to immense pressure.

What happens during seafloor spreading?

Magma rises to the surface as tectonic plates move apart, creating new oceanic crust.

What is the process that leads to the formation of volcanoes at destructive plate boundaries?

Subduction of oceanic crust melts and produces silica-rich magma, which rises to the surface.

What is the result of friction between tectonic plates at conservative margins (transform plate boundaries)?

Pressure builds up until it is suddenly released, causing shallow earthquakes.

What is a plateau?

A flat elevated landform that rises sharply above the surrounding area.

What is a karst landscape?

A landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks, characterized by features like caves and sinkholes.

What is the difference between constructive and destructive plate boundaries?

Constructive boundaries involve plates moving apart, creating new crust, while destructive boundaries involve plates colliding, leading to subduction and mountain formation.

What are the 3 types of weathering?

Physical, chemical, biological

What are the differences between weathering and erosion?

They are different but related processes that shape the Earth's surface. Weathering refers to the breaking down or altering of rocks, while erosion involves the movement of those weathered materials from one place to another.

What are the two types of landscapes that have valleys?

Mountain landscapes and riverine landscapes

What types of landforms are in coastal landscapes?

Beaches, cliffs, headlands, stacks.

what types of landforms are in desert landscapes?

Mesa, Buttes, Arches, flats, canyons.

What type of landforms does the process of deposition create?

Sand dunes, beaches

What are the 4 ways we value landforms?

Aesthetic value, emotional value, spiritual value, economic value

How might Indigenous Australia's value Uluru?

The Anangu People value Uluru for its rich cultural value as a place that holds stories, songs and dances and as a place of teaching. They also value Uluru as a sacred site formed by ancestrals (spriritual value). Anangu people also value Uluru for its economic value as an important tourist area.