As you take a hike you can notice different land features. But how did these landforms get that way? A landform is any feature of the Earth’s surface that is produced by nature. This includes plains, plateaus, mountain ranges, or valleys. Roads and streets produced by humans are not landforms.

The forces of nature that create landforms include water, ice, wind, volcanoes, and earthquakes. They are divided into landforms created by erosion and landforms created by tectonic activity.

As nature works its magic on the surface of the Earth, we get many spectacular views. It is our job to determine how they were created.