It gives it most of its topography - but over the Earth's life is also responsible for allowing terrestrial life to develop.
Without erosion the basic "shape" of the landscape would otherwise be the flat, featureless plains of cratons, or rather ordinary-looking plateaux, hills and mountain-ridges lifted by tectonic processes.
Erosion creates valleys etc - -but it also is responsible over geological time for creating sediment deposits that become sedimentary rocks. When in turn these are uplifted into hills and plateaux, their differing characteristics give differing erosion results, enriching the landscape's variety.
It also creates the matrix of rock particles and soluble minerals needed as the basis of soil, necessary to support vegetation hence terrestrial life.
In fact had their been no erosion at all since the planet formed, the landscape would be of nothing but igneous rock, and mostly bare rock at that. The only vegetation on land, if any, to have evolved would have been very highly-specialised algae and bacteria. But whence would they have drawn their nutrients? If their only source of food was the rock then that would have created a very slow form of erosion.
erosion and plate tectonics
Weathering and erosion reshape the Earth's surface by both of there processes of movement. ~Jazzy Bhoo' P.S Add Me On FaceBookMy Name Is Jazzy Duhh
they obviously destroy things...
The inner planets are different from the other planets mainly because
Wind erosion, is the process of wearing away of landforms on the earths surface by the action of wind (ie, fast moving air), movement, motion and aggresiveness.
Weathering and erosion shape earths surface by changing earths surface by having extreme forces that change earth.
Erosion and deposition shapes the Earth's surface.
erosion helps bring fossils to earths surface by when a animal dies it turns into a fossil
Erosion
Weather erosion is where the weather effects the shape of the earths surface
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wears it away
Weathering and erosion
erosion glaciers and torndaoes
weathering, erosion, deposition
Weathering and erosion is wind or water that breaks away rock or soil. The rocks they carry can erode away other rocks.