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S LANDFORMS OF THE WORLD Nearly three quarters of Earth's surface is covered with a water mostly oceans The rest of Earth's surface is a covered in land that is incredibly varied It ranges from huge mighty mountains to dark caves deep underground from hills of sand in the desert to islands These and other features shapes and types of land are A called landforms Earth has some weird and wonderful I landforms such as this rocky landscape in Bryce Canyon National Park
he force of a rushing waterfall can gradually break down and wear away rock Landforms vary around the world Australia has large areas of sandy desert and Nepal has many mountains Most landforms form slowly for example when rock is gradually worn down by erosion Some landforms form more quickly for example when Erosion is when soil or hot lava from underground rock is carried away by bursts out onto the surface water ice or wind and