Major Land Forms

The different types of major landforms like mountains, valleys, and plateaus make the earth’s surface versatile. The major landforms such as mountains and valleys, volcanoes, and glaciers, islands and deserts, waterfalls, and plains make the earth versatile landforms. The reason for formation of major landforms in different regions of the world are changes of weathering, elevation of the atmosphere and the cycle of erosion. Apart from that, the constant soil shaping on the surface of the earth is a lengthy process that takes millions of million years of age to form a major landform. The geological procedures originate due to different natural calamities like earthquakes, active volcanoes, the replacement of continental and oceanic plates.        

Major landforms: definition

Major landforms on the earth’s surface were formed because of elevation, erosion, different weathering, and the sinking process that gradually shapes the physiography and formulates the geological processes. The formation of procedures of major landforms is primarily classified into two different processes such as external and internal procedures. The external process includes erosion, rainfall, and wind flow but the internal natural process relies on volcanic eruption and earthquake and the process of continental and oceanic plate tectonics. The external process of major landform creation has less impact than the internal process. Sediment erosion, heavy rainfall, and strong wind blow only modify and form slight changes on the major landform but the internal procedure that forms of volcanic eruption and earthquake has a great impact on the formation of major landforms and sometimes it can form a new type of landforms.      

Different types of landforms

• Mountain and hills: The highest level of landform is the mountain. This type of landform is higher than 2000 feet and situated mainly in the cold temperature region.    
• Volcano: It is a major landform that can also be a reason for the formation of different landforms that contains lava and magma. 
• Plateau: The plateau is not more than 800 feet and it is also called tableland for its flat surface. 
• Plain: Plainland is the most significant landmass of major landforms as it is characterized by thick population density, developed agricultural processes, industrial improvement, and transformation facilities. 
• River and mountain valleys: The river and mountains valleys consist of the tail part of this region and this region is also developed by agricultural processes, industrial advancement, and transportation facilities.      

The reason for the formation of major landforms 

Reasons for the different landforms involve external and internal procedures of elevation and land reinforcement. The velocity of erosion, rainfall, and wind flow is the principal external process that is a cause of formations of major landforms. There is a great impact of the different landforms of India on population thickness as the people want to reside in the landmasses that are beneficial to them in terms of agricultural processes, industrial advancement, and transportation facilities. The eruption of volcanoes, collision of a continental plate with oceanic plate, major earthquakes, and Tsunami are included in internal procedures. The internal procedure of major landforms creation has a great impact on the world’s physiography that greatly influences the population, natural habitat system, drainage system, and transportation system as well.     

Conclusion 

The formation of major landforms is one of the moist physiographic features of the land surface and has a great impact on the different landforms of industry and economic development all over the world. Major landforms of the earth’s surface lead the natural habitats of people along with different plants and animals and it influences the process of agriculture, industry development and regulates the characteristics of natural vegetations. The lifestyle of people along with different plants and animals has mostly changed with the difference of landforms like the food habit of people, agricultural characteristics, and shape of the habitat totally depends on the major landforms.