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Class 9 ยท Geography

Shaping of the Earth's Surface

Travel from Earth's interior to rivers, coasts, glaciers, drylands and caves, then use the evidence to make safer landscape decisions.

Central questionHow do forces inside Earth and agents at its surface create landforms, shape human life and influence disaster risk?

In this chapter

  • How Earth's interior and moving plates build major relief
  • How water, waves, ice, wind and groundwater shape landforms
  • How people read landscape evidence and reduce disaster risk
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Layered paper landscape connecting Earth's interior, mountains, rivers, coast, glacier, dryland and caves.
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