Question

List the agents responsible for new landforms.

Answer 1

Agents responsible for the formation of new land forms :

weathering, erosion, and deposition are a main force behind landscape types

·       But they are not the only reason for a plain, plateau, and mountain region to form

o     Other factors such as glaciation and tectonic activity lead to landscape building

§       In New York State, glaciation is one of the main causes of many types of landscape regions

o     the water cycle or hydrologic cycle(see graphic below) is the driving force behind WED (weathering, erosion, and deposition)

o     winds also help form the surface landscape

o     But without gravity and the sun this whole process would not occur

Water Cycle

The water cycle process looks like this:

Evaporation Þ condensation Þ precipitation  Þ infiltration  Þ run-off

Without this process, weathering, erosion, and deposition would have a difficult time occurring on Earth.