There are many ways that the land on the Earth is shaped and moved, all of these processes form different physical features on the Earth’s surface. Some of the landforms that will be discussed are volcanoes, mountains, plateaus, mesa, buttes, and valleys. Some of these landforms start off as one of the other ones and then through the process of erosion or tectonic plate movement they are transformed into something else. The process in which this happens will be discussed in greater detail throughout each section. The earth is a wondrous thing that is constantly changing because of these natural phenomena. We will also learn that when some of these phenomena occur they have devastating effects on the areas around them.