What land forms are found on planet earth?

Answer 1

Landforms organized by the processes that create them.

Aeolian landforms are formed by the wind and include:

* Barchan

* Blowout

* Desert pavement

* Desert varnish

* Dune

* Dreikanter

* Erg

* Loess

* Playa

* Sandhill

* Ventifact

* Yardang

Coastal and oceanic landforms include:

* abyssal fan

* abyssal plain

* archipelago

* atoll

* arch

* ayre

* barrier bar & barrier island

* bay & gulf

* beach & raised beach

* beach cusps

* beach ridge

* bight

* blowhole

* channel

* cape

* cliff

* coast

* continental shelf

* coral reef

* cove

* cuspate foreland

* dune system

* estuary

* firth

* fjord

* headland

* inlet

* island, islet

* isthmus

* lagoon

* machair

* marine terrace

* Mid-ocean ridge

* ocean

* oceanic basin

* oceanic plateau

* oceanic trench

* peninsula

* ria

* river delta

* salt marsh

* sea

* sea cave

* shoal

* sound

* spit

* strait

* stack & stump

* submarine canyon

* surge channel

* tombolo

* volcanic arc

* wave cut platform

Landforms produced by erosion and weathering usually occur in coastal or fluvial environments, and many appear under those

headings as well.

* bench

* butte

* canyon

* cave

* cliff

* cuesta

* dissected plateau

* eolianite

* erg

* gulch

* gully

* hogback

* hoodoo

* lavaka

* limestone pavement

* malpais

* mesa

* natural arch

* pediment

* peneplain

* potrero

* ridge

* rock formations

* tea table

* tepui

* valley

Fluvial landforms include:

* ait

* alluvial fan

* anabranch

* arroyo

* drainage basin

* bar

* bayou

* beach

* braided channel

* Carolina Bay

* cave

* cliff

* drainage basin

* endorheic basin

* exhumed river channel

* floodplain

* fluvial terrace

* gully

* island

* lacustrine plain

* lake

* natural levee

* marsh

* meander

* oasis

* oxbow lake

* peneplain

* playa

* pond

* natural pool

* proglacial lake

* rapid

* riffle

* river

* rock-cut basin

* shoal

* spring

* stream

* swamp

* valley and vale

* wadi

* waterfall

* watershed

Mountain and glacial landforms include:

* arête

* cirque

* crevasse

* corrie or cwm

* dirt cone

* drumlin & drumlin field

* esker

* fjord

* fluvial terrace

* glacial horn

* glacier

* glacier cave

* glacier foreland

* hanging valley

* hill

* inselberg

* kame

* kame delta

* kettle

* monadnock

* moraine and ribbed moraines

* moulin (geology)

* mountain & mountain range

* nunatak

* outwash fan and outwash plain

* pingo

* rift valley

* sandur

* side valley

* summit

* trim line

* tunnel valley

* valley

* U-shaped valley

Slope landforms include:

* alas

* bluff

* butte

* cliff

* cuesta

* dale

* defile

* dell

* escarpment (scarp)

* glen

* gully

* hill

* knoll

* mesa

* mountain pass

* plain

* plateau

* ravine

* ridge

* rock shelter

* scree

* strath

* terrace & terracettes

* vale

* valley

* valley shoulder

Volcanic landforms include:

* caldera

* crater lake

* geyser

* lava dome

* lava flow & lava plain

* lava lake

* lava spine

* lava tube

* maar

* malpais

* mamelon

* mid-ocean ridge

* oceanic trench

* pit crater

* pseudocrater

* subglacial mound

* tuya

* vent

* volcanic cone

* volcanic craters (not impact craters)

* volcanic dam

* volcanic field

* volcanic group

* volcanic island

* volcanic plateau

* volcanic plug

* volcano, complex volcano, shield volcano, mud volcano, composite volcano, stratovolcano & supervolcano)

(Sourced from wikipedia)