River Island River Island Landforms Have 2 Main Characteristics: A landmass (island) in a river Above the surface of the water Example of a River Island Landform: Davis Island, Mississippi River, Louisiana and Mississippi, USA The river island picture above is of a river in a mountainous area. What is a River Island Landform? A […]
Braided River Landforms Braided River Landforms Have 2 Main Characteristics: Three or more river channels Join together again or drain into the same body of water Example of a Braided River Landform: The Brahmaputra and Jamuna Rivers in Bangladesh The picture above is an example of a braided river in Spain, the Sella River. What is […]
River Delta River Delta Landforms Have 2 Main Characteristics: A river separates into channels The channels drain into another body of water Example of a River Delta Landform: Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, USA The river delta picture above is of the Parana river delta in Argentina. What is a River Delta Landform? A river delta is a […]
List of Landforms on Earth Types of Landforms and Definitions Alluvial fan: land formation that occurs when sedimentary materials such as rocks, gravel, and silt, are deposited onto land as a result of decreasing or stopped water flow from a river or stream source. Altitude (elevation): the height above sea level Anabranch: a flowing part of […]
River Clicking on the river landforms will make the image larger while keeping you on the river page. A river has 3 main characteristics Largest stream of water Flows through land Into lake, ocean or other body of water Examples of River Landforms: The Mississippi River The Nile River What is a River? A river […]
Riffle Riffle Landforms Have 2 Main Characteristics: Shallow section of a river or stream Rough bottom, causing ripples on the surface Example of a Riffle Landform: Dunn Riffle, Rogue River, Oregon, USA The riffle picture above is of Athabasca River with a view of Mount Kerkeslin at Jasper National Park in Canada. What is a Riffle […]
Meander Meander Landforms Have 2 Main Characteristics: A bend or curve in a river or stream Over 90 degrees Example of a Meander Landform: Uvac River, Serbia and eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina What is a Meander Landform? A meander is where a river or stream makes a bend or curve, generally over 90 degrees. How […]
Drainage Basin Landforms Drainage Basin Landforms Have 2 Main Characteristics: All the water provided for the river Exits from the river at a single point Example of a Drainage Basin Landform: Amazon River, South America The drainage basin picture above is of the Mississippi River in New Orleans. What is a Drainage Basin Landform? A […]
Anabranch Anabranch landforms have 2 main characteristics: Watercourse leaves main flow of a stream or river Rejoins later down the stream Example of an Anabranch Landform: Talyawalka Anabranch, Darling River, New South Wales, Australia What is an Anabranch Landform? An anabranch is a channel of water that leaves a river or stream and then rejoins again further […]
Oxbow Lake Oxbow Lake Landforms Have 2 Main Characteristics: Long and narrow, curved lake A former meander of a river Example of an Oxbow Lake Landform: Carter Lake, Nebraska and Iowa, USA The oxbow lake picture is of a diagram of how it is formed. What is an Oxbow Lake Landform? An oxbow lake is […]
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In Asia, China, India, Nepal, and Bhutan are home to one of the eight wonders of the world and one of the most beautiful mountains in the world, the Himalaya Mountains also called the Himalayas. Boasting as the world’s highest and most famous mountain peak, Mt. Everest. Within the verse of the ‘Kumarsambhava’, Sanskrit […]
Nature have provided us with fascinating landforms and features. The most often adored landforms are volcanoes. Like the perfect cone structure of Mayon Volcano in the Philippines or Mount Fiji in Japan, people look at their beauty and wonder with great appreciation to nature. Volcanoes are mountains with a very disastrous nature. Their only […]
Taal Volcano is the second most active volcano found in the province of Batangas. A complex volcano in the middle of Taal Lake and is often called an island within a lake, that is an island within a lake that is on an island as well as one of the lowest volcano in the […]
Mayon Volcano is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines. Located in the southern part of Luzon about 473 kilometers (294 miles) from Makati Business District of the Philippines, Mount Mayon is the main landmark of the Province of Albay of Bicol Region. According to local folklore, the volcano was named after Daragang […]
The global temperature and weather is to a large extent a direct result of the sun’s effect to our planet. Together with the atmosphere and the rotation of the earth on its axis. The earth on which weather moves on has its own effect on the weather. The different landforms like mountains, volcanoes, plains, and the […]
