A landform is the formation of rock and dirt found on Earth’s surface which can be larger than a continent or smaller than a pond. In geological science it is referred that they are features that make up earth’s surface. The highest order of landforms can be oceans or continents. They are created by a lot of factors like plate tectonics, erosion, deposition, wind etc. Biological factors sometimes influence them. For example corals and algae form the coral reef which is a natural process, so coral reefs are also called landforms. They comprise a geomorphological unit. Oceanic water body interface like ocean, sea, bay, peninsulas, gulf, ocean etc are also included to the landform. Landforms are grouped by the physical characteristic like the elevation or slope or orientation etc. It is also classified with rock exposure, soil type, formation etc. Different kinds of inlands or oceanic water bodies or surface are included to landforms. They are the physical features of the l earth’s surface. Mountains, valley, oceans, bay, volcano etc all are included to them. All of them are formed by natural reasons.

Environmental or natural factors like plate tectonics, erosion, deposition etc can generate landforms. Man made features can not generate them and also geographic features are not included in them. They are not only common in this earth but also common in other planets also. For example mountains, valley, volcanoes etc are also found in other planets in the universe. Landforms are categorized by the processes that create them. They are – Aeolian, coastal, oceanic, erosion, fluvial, mountain, glacial and volcanic. Each of the categories is divided into sub-category. Aeolian landforms are formed by winds. Some of the Aeolian class landforms are –dune, playa, desert pavements etc. Costal or oceanic types are normally formed by erosion. Sea, ocean, gulf, bay, coral reef, fjord, peninsula etc are oceanic category. Erosion landforms included with Bench, butte, canyon, cave, cliff, hogback, hoodoo, lavaka, mesa, peneplain, potrero, ridge, rock formations, tea table, tepui, valley etc. Erosion landforms are formed by climatic factors. Motion of sediments and erosion is the cause of fluvial landforms. Cave, cliff, river etc are some fluvial landforms.

Wind, water and ice and also by the movement of the earth’s tectonic plates are some primary reasons of forming landform. It took millions of years to form them but some of them are formed within 10,000 years to some hours. Volcanic landforms are formed quickly. Landscape is the area of group of landforms. A landscape can be included with a lot of landforms like rivers, mountains, sea, hills etc. As it is mentioned mountains are the highest order landforms while oceanic basins are the lowest order. Oceanic basins are very large and most of the oceanic basin can be found anywhere under the sea. Ground basins are also same as the underwater basin. Both of them are landforms. They are forming from the first day of the earth and still forming. Some of them have natural beauty which attacks everyone.

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The records have been skewed about global warming and the news has been alarmed. People have fallen for it for over 30 years while people have made billions off the lies. It is very sad that the mainstream news media has been trying to cover up the fraud of this case. We can’t even trust the United Nations in the matter. You are probably with the majority of the people about not knowing what to believe on global warming.

In the terms of geology, land changes are a lot easier to study than the warming of the earth. The facts of the changing of the land are sounder that the facts based on global warming. The changing of land is a lot more alarming. It is very frightening that the people of the world have not seen this cause to action. It has been going on for centuries.

Changing landforms can benefit and have negative impacts on people. Changing landforms can have a far more negative impact on the environment. It has been factually proven, unlike the so called man made global warming or the newer term, climate change. A very good example is that the flows of rivers have been changed to help people in many ways. This has caused the destruction of fish and animals. These changes have caused some extinction of important fish and animals.

A very good example of negative effects on changing landforms is the destruction of forest landforms. Many animals have also died or even became extinct. On the news we see or hear of the animals that are on the endangered species list because their forest is destroyed. We also have fewer trees to clean up the carbon dioxide in air that creates more pollution. If we change our forest our planet can change for the worse.

New Orleans would be a negative impact. The weather can be changed from modifying our land from high to low or low to high. This can cause more rain in an area or even drought. Changing weather is natural but changing landforms can cause unnatural change. As a society, we need to take this in consideration.

It is obvious that we do need to change landforms to live. We really do need to study how changing landforms can have a negative impact on our world. It is true that changing landforms changes many things like the death of animals, the change of weather and the environment. There is a lot of doubt among people about global warming. Global warming cannot be trust, so people should focus their attention on saving landforms. Take care of our planet, especially each and every landform we can see.

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Changing Landforms for Homes

As a people, there are reasons to change a landform. This could be for may causes with the examples like shelter, protection and to gratify the persons eye.Construction workers and army engineers are examples of how people have changed land we live in.During our lives and the ones before us, the landforms of the world have changed for the people, usually for shelter, but in recent years, permanent homes of what we call houses, apartments and condos have been constructed.

Recent History of Landforms

In more recent history, people of different cultures built their houses into the land. Let us take a glimps at some Native American tribes.   Some tribes built their homes in the side of mountain landforms. The causes were many but the main was it was great protection. It was easy for the people as the cliffs were near by.   The same hold true of people from the past in the Middle East. These people live in mountains too. The people used mountains to build giant shelters that resemble some houses we live in today.As our times as a human population went forward, the tools we used also went forward to build in many areas such as mountains. 

Examples of Landforms

One of the neatest examples of how people changed a landform to have a place to live, is during the time of the middle ages. People of the time of Jesus, and the people before him, built their homes out of stone in the land.   This stone was used all over the place. Included in the building is irrigations and sewer systems.   Water was brought in for city drinking water as well as baths. The system these people used are still used today by the construction workers of our time. Changing landforms have helped people live in large communities living. They get to live close together like they started to in the Middle East.

Plain Landforms

Plain landforms, a few hundred years ago, gave people a place to live. To answer what a plain is, it is an area of land without a lot of tree and is flat.   So one way people were creative is they constructed homes out of the Earth. The people of this time made their roofs out of sod and the rest of the house from the worldly Earth. Houses were made out of dirt and mud. This left a lot of to the landform and it did not change much of the landforms.

Recent History Of Lanforms

In the more recent history, landforms such as forests and swampy areas have been changed for businesses and places to live. Farm areas and forest land were taken over by businesses so people could establish a place of employment. Houses were built near swampy land so people could thrive and live near enough to drive to work.     The trees were used to build the homes and building. The landforms were destroyed for the people to live and work on.

Given the change in population, land forms have changed drastically to benefit where we live. The people of the world today, live in millions upon millions of homes. Prairies are now farms that feed us food we need.   We have changed many land forms for a place to live. It is much different from the protective shelters of the past.

Population increase has change our landforms. Where once was a glowing landform like a archipelago, is now homes for large families and buildings for people to do their jobs.  In the recent past, we have changed landforms at an alarming rate for our convenience.  As of today, it is much different from a thousand years ago, when landforms were not much used.   Humans have done this for a more convenient place to live and for protection but it has had an effect on our landforms. If we still want to see our beautiful landforms, we may want to think about where we live today and the homes we as a people live in.

A few days short of two months from the day the flood came. Lives abruptly strewn in disarray are now starting to be rebuilt. Where once people, filled with thoughts of hopelessness and dismay, have now set their minds on recovering.

One hard-hit place is Marikina city. Seated on a valley where a river runs through, it was once the premiere shoe producer of the Philippines. Over time it would also become one of the country’s cleanest and greenest cities.

Taking a quick drive around town, one gets the idea that sights do abound here, as with major destinations such as Manila. Places to see include the River Park, a whole stretch of river bank converted into a sight-seeing park; the Shoe Museum, which also houses thousands of pairs previously owned by Imelda Marcos; the Doll Museum, an international collection of dolls; the Butterfly Farm, for nature lovers willing to take a short drive from the heart of the city.

A recent addition, situated in the vicinity of a major traffic intersection in the city, is a wall of bells, or chimes that are automated to play native Filipino tunes every hour, by the hour. This fronts a water fountain that has become a favorite hang-out spot for young and old people alike, who enjoy the cool mist emanating from the water spout while enjoying the hourly tunes. I, personally, enjoy walking by this place, on my way to work. I would catch a glance of people, like kids just playing around the spot, or elderly citizens lounging around the fountains edge.

Then came the day of the flood; it was not particularly choosy of its victims; young and old, men and women, wealthy and destitute, Christians and Muslims, homes and hospitals, schools and stores, practically everything in its path, city sights included. Proud boasting of residents here were left muted, leaving voiceless even the chimes.

The waters took a few days to subside, but left a considerable amount of mud upon its exit. It took weeks on end to complete the clean up job; though it took a while longer for the air of despair to melt away.

If I counted correct, its been a month and 12 days since. I again am passing by the chimes that have become a symbol of Marikina living. Before I gotten far, a familiar clanging lilt filled my ears and I realized that it was the fountain chimes back on-line. Though lugging a bulky laptop messenger bag while crossing the street, I managed a glance back at the sound machine. Then I noticed the young girls and boys splashing water, and a person, well on in age, crossed legged, seemingly thinking about retiring, and what could be his retiring income. With a smile I knew, we’re back to normal.

This piece is not concerned with the environmental issues or global warming solutions; it touches on what alterations there will be to snow levels and ski weather till 2100.

I’m not going to discuss the inevitable apocalypse with the attendant thunderstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, but whether we like it or not (pun intended) the Earth’s climate is heating up at an alarming speed and faster than ever before. As someone who has skied all their life I’m interested in the facts about global warming and how it will affect ski weather and snow levels. Last season had some of the biggest snowfalls ever – check this clip which demonstrates the current snow levels trend.

During the next hundred years there could be a maximum increase of up to 6.4°C in global temperatures, which is about five times the increase during the whole of the twentieth century. Many people reckon that snow levels will go down as rain takes over, but this is not definitely the case.

Let’s look in the simplest way at how the climate affects our ski weather. We’ll call rain and snow ‘precipitation’. Water vapour or hot wet air rises up from the equator, warmed up by the sun. This water vapour forms the vast circular weather systems in both hemispheres as it cools and drops down, moved along by the earth’s rotational forces.

North of the equator, for example, the major weather systems make their way from west to east on account of the earth’s rotation and precipitation mostly takes place as these systems hit the land. As the moist air in these systems hits Europe and North America, it is forced upwards by the landmasses, cools and drops as either snow and rain.

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So if the climate gets hotter there will be increased precipitation in these areas as the sea will evaporate more readily. But will it be snow or will it be rain? This is the question. If the temperature will be 6.5°C higher by the end of the century we can say that the height where rain changes to snow will progrees up a mountain about 1000 metres during this time. This is because the temperature falls by about 6.5°C per 1000 metres of altitude. We are going to get increased preciptation and the altitude where rain turns to snow will be going up the mountain by about ten metres a year.

So it appears there may be a few years left yet, and I’ll sign off by throwing this little snippet into the algorithm. As the world warms up the Greenland icecap will melt even faster. It is not fully understood what this will do to the Gulf Stream. Presently, this fast moving current of warm seawater, coming up from the Equator, keeps the western coast of Europe relatively warm. But thirteen thousand years ago a freshwater lake in Canada stopped the Gulf Stream dead when it overflowed its banks, dropping into the Atlantic and starting the last Ice Age in Europe. The same thing could happen if the accelerated melting of the Greenland icecap pours a massive amount of cold freshwater into the Gulf Stream and clunk – it switches off. Then we would have more blizzards than we bargained for…

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“I want to share their stories with young people around the world,” writes noted biologist Jane Goodall in her latest book: Hope For Animals and their World. “I want them to know that, even when our mindless activities have almost entirely destroyed some ecosystem or driven a species to the brink of extinction, we must not give up. Thanks to the resilience of nature and the indomitable human spirit, there is still hope.” From a biologist’s standpoint, the most important factor in the preservation of species is protecting these animals’ habitat, whether it has been destroyed by farming, urbanization, predators, poaching or global warming. Today, government action is the top benefactor of endangered species, but the breeding of zoo animals in facilities across America has also saved several key species that were once on the brink of extinction.

The San Diego Zoo has one of the most active species-preservation programs in the nation. Their Center for Conservation and Research raises endangered species, such as California condors, pandas, tigers and African black rhinos. Some of these species are bred in captivity and later released into the wild, while others proliferate in the zoo for their entire adult lives. To help preserve rare animals, the San Diego Wild Animal Park has a cryopreservation facility to freeze sperm and eggs of rare animals. In 2009, the San Diego Zoological Society was proud to announce the birth of a giant panda cub, a western lowland gorilla and two endangered Grand Cayman blue iguanas.

The first Species Survival Plan for North American zoo animals began in 1981. Today there are 114 plans that oversee the breeding of everything from Addax antelopes to Grevy’s zebras. At the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee, there are birds, reptiles and mammals participating in the program, but perhaps the biggest star is the red panda. Several baby animals have been born in captivity after being bred with international visitor pandas that brought unique sets of traits to the captive animals. Knoxville is also one of four zoos to hatch endangered Burmese star tortoises and their success with the southern white rhinos account for a third of all rhino births in the U.S.

Generally, animal rights groups do not support zoo animals breeding programs because they believe that it is immoral to tamper with wild animal species in any way — be it animal testing, meat and dairy production, domestication or wearing fur fashions. Wildlife biologists, on the other hand, support captive-bred animals, but also feel that their long-term survival depends upon a stabilization of the animals’ natural habitat. They also warn about the danger of inbreeding too close in blood lines, breeding for non-aggressive traits (that may be preferable for a zoo but not for the wild) and the possibility of introducing contamination into wild populations.

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Versatile and incredibly varied, eco-friendly products gradually become part of our lives. People can now shop for eco friendly products according to almost any category related to human activity; there are green clothes, organic food, gift ideas, green services, green appliances, sustainable building, and environmentally friendly solutions to almost anything you can think of. Reuse, reduce, recycle, this is the fundamental motto of a green lifestyle. Yet, not everybody knows about the wide offer of eco friendly products, which is usually a matter of personal awareness and consciousness about the environment and the personal impact on it.

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The sad truth is that more than half the globe’s population has not heard of eco friendly products as alternatives to the items they use daily. A housewife may not be thrilled about using a bio-based solvent instead of her efficient chemical bleacher. Poor efficiency is what we fear most in eco friendly products, and hence the reluctance to use them.This is one of thousands of other examples that can be found in daily life. In fact, some ‘impossible to make’ changes may be encountered with the most convinced of environmentalists. If this is the way people think, no wonder we are far from using eco friendly products on a daily basis.

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A cleaner Earth is not therefore possible without a change of paradigm. A person who is interested in using as many eco friendly products as possible, will also adapt the rest of the lifestyle habits to the green trend. When you become committed to the Earth’s cause, you’ll feel guilty wasting water, electricity or consuming lots of fuel resources.Eco friendly products are just one part of a larger phenomenon that touches on all aspects of our lives. Hybrid cars or electric vehicles, alternative heat and power sources, the replacement of incandescent bulbs with light-saving ones, all these are examples of transformations that are currently taking place.

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Anyone can start using eco friendly products, and make the environmental exercise a daily practice. When families behave ecologically responsible, children receive the green education necessary for supporting the environmental efforts required from the next generations.Hence, green education starts at school by direct example. A child who knows the importance of eco friendly products will become an environmentally responsible adult.

When it comes to planting a lawn the period of its initial growth is most important. If your lawn struggles to grow or germinate you might end up having to do the whole job again. To avoid this you can plant your lawn at certain times of the year to make sure it has a high chance of growing.

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In some instances you find that you do buy the correct type of seed for your area and have even cleared the ground very well. Yet planting at the wrong time of the year will require you to pay extra attention to your lawn just to get it t grow.

If you are going to be planting grass seed you need to appreciate that it requires lots of water to grow. So during summer because of the high temperatures involved; planting during this time might not be a good idea. weeds grow very well during the summer months and planting your grass during this period might not also be a wise thing to do. You could plant in summer but spread some peat moss over the area to prevent the seed from drying out.

The best times to plant would be in spring or during early fall. At this time of the year temperatures are low and the grass requires little care and maintenance. Avoid having to apply weed killer when the grass is still small. Weed killer should only be used once the grass has fully grown. What you can do is apply fertilizer to it regularly just to make sure the grass is getting all the nutrients that it needs.

The time of the year doesn’t affect those places that have long periods of sunshine for most part of the year. In those places where the conditions are frequently changing find out the type of grass that will grow well in your area.