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.
they obviously destroy things...
The inner planets are different from the other planets mainly because
The process is called erosion.
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.
It wears down the high bits (and the bits that come off fills up the low bits).
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
EROSION
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Weathering and erosion
erosion glaciers and torndaoes
The answer is Weatering And Erosion.
Erosion.
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Weathering breaks down rocks into smaller pieces, while erosion transports these pieces to new locations. Over time, these processes can create features like valleys, canyons, and coastlines, shaping the Earth's surface.
Erosion, weathering