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How can water shape earths landscape?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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Rosewashere

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erodes land

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11y ago

Water shapes the earth's surface in many ways. First there is streams, rivers, waves, etc. They pile up sediment or moved to different locations. In the ocean the force of the water can smooth/erode softer rocks, (more dense rocks take longer to erode) and create many different rock formations such as columns, arches and caves. These forces can also cause these caves, etc. to collapse Another way water changes the shape of the earths surface is by glaciers, after/ during the ice age glaceirs slid down mountains creating scrapes in the ground and carving mountains and valleys in the process along with depositing anything from pebbles to boulders in random areas. When glaciers melt the water creates small streams that eventually lead to rivers and etc. New rivers often zigzag, while older rivers have lots of curves and meanders allot.

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13y ago

water affect the formation of the earth's surface because of polution. This affects the bodies of water, land masses, animals, and plants. everything needs water but if the water is poluted everything will be futile

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13y ago

From rain there is erosion. The water makes the soil travel to other places, thus leaving the new place with more soil and the starting place with less soil. Also rivers erode the valleys, mountain, and canyons which they flow through. This shapes the land and builds the shape of the land form.

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9y ago

Water shapes the earth by erosion. Erosion is when water loosens up the soil and causes it to become loose and separates from river banks and from the sides of mountains.

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12y ago

Moving water erodes weathered rock and soil.

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12y ago

Landform

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