LAND AND WATER FORMATIONS

• Landforms -comprises a geomorphological unit and is largely defined by its surface form and location in the landscape.
• Waterforms / Waterway -bodies of water that are important for many reasons, but in relation to topography, water is the force behind erosion.
• Ocean - a body of saline water that composes much of Earth’s hydrosphere.
• Sea - smaller than oceans and usually located where the land and ocean meets.
• Strait - a waterway that cpnnects two larger bodies.
• Gulf - a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea.
• deposition- These earth materials are then “added” to an environment or landform in a process
• 1. Terrestrial Environments
  2. Transitional Environments
  3. Marine Environments
• Terrestrial Environments -Land and water forms in this environment can be found on land and usually involve freshwater.
• Transitional environments -represent the interface between land and sea. It is here where freshwater meets with seawater.
• Marine Environments -These environments can be found in the open waters, from the shallow depths to the deepest portions of the ocean.
• depositional environment