Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are the four major types of landforms. Minor landforms include buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins. Tectonic plate movement under the Earth can create landforms by pushing up mountains and hills.

Rocky Mountain Region is named after the Rocky Mountains, which cover 6 states.

A landform region is a recognizable feature on the earth that was naturally formed. These regions have common characteristics like soils, climate, or vegetation. Terrain also helps in identifying certain landforms. For example, some people might think of mountains or bays if they hear the word landform.

Terms in this set (11) The Appalachian Mountains are older & lower than the Rocky Mountains. How do the Appalachian Mountains differ from the Rocky Mountains? The Coastal Plain & the Interior Plains are the 2 largest landform regions in the U.S.

Erosion is another geological process that creates landforms. When mechanical and chemical weathering breaks up materials on the Earth’s surface, erosion can move them to new locations. For example, wind, water or ice can create a valley by removing material. Plateaus can also be formed this way.

The oceans of the world are actually a landform of water that do take up 71% of the earth’s surface. It is made up of a total of 5 bodies of water. These include the following: mid-ocean ranges, guyots, abyss, trenches and even mountains!

Landforms under the ocean are:

• continental shelf,
• continental slope,
• continental rise,
• abyssal plain,
• mid-ocean ridge,
• rift zone,
• trench,
• seamount/guyot.

Rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, and streams are all freshwater habitats. So are wetlands like swamps, which have woody plants and trees; and marshes, which have no trees but lots of grasses and reeds. Freshwater accounts for only three percent of the world’s water. (The rest is saltwater.)

Examples of landforms include oceans, rivers, valleys, plateaus, mountains, plains, hills and glaciers. Landforms do not include manufactured features, such as canals, ports and harbors, nor geographic features such as deserts and forests.

Which landform is most profitable to live in, in terms of resources?

• INTERIOR PLAINS. >The gas and oil found in Alberta and Saskatchewan come from the plains.
• GREAT LAKES- ST.LAWRENCE LOWLANDS.
• APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS.
• INNUITIAN MOUNTAINS.
• HUDSON BAY- ARCTIC LOWLANDS.
• WESTERN CORDILLERA.