Exploratory Essay: Why Does Landscape Change Occur?

This article introduce how landscape change occur. In the first paragraph, the reading mentions there are two main influences can shape landscape, constructive process such as uplift, and destructive forces such as erosion.

Then the writer give us an example to explain how this two kind of influences work, People usually think that mountains can resist destructive forces, however it’s not. The reading claim that higher mountains usually are younger and lower mountains are tend to be older, because The earth’s crust is separate to huge movable segments which called plates, when plates collide each other will raise the land, this constructive processes crate mountains, and then erosion shape those new mountains, make them lower and lower.