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Landform Diversity — Mountains, Plateaus, Plains - Short Trick

Mountains, plateaus, plains, lakes, islands and deserts — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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Mountains — Ages and Types

The four ages of mountain building and their mountains, then examples of each type of mountain.

Trick 1

Ages of mountain building

➜ oldest to youngest

Priya carried Heena’s album.

  1. 1Pre-Cambrianthe oldest — in India the Aravali (about 2.5–1.7 billion years)
  2. 2Caledonian≈ 490–390 million years ago
  3. 3Hercynian (Variscan)≈ 380–280 million years ago
  4. 4Alpine (Tertiary)the youngest — still rising
Trick 2

Caledonian mountains

⇄ Any order

Amit scanned his scooter papers at the branch.

  1. Appalachians (early phase)
  2. Scandinavian mountains
  3. Scottish Highlands
  4. Brazilides
Trick 3

Hercynian mountains

⇄ Any order

Volunteers from the mess drew a bridge on the blackboard.

  1. Vosges
  2. Spanish Meseta
  3. Brittany
  4. Black Forest

Also of this age — the Iberian mountains and the Mendips.

Trick 4

Alpine mountains (young fold)

⇄ Any order

Anil always rides horses.

  1. Andes
  2. Alps
  3. Rockies
  4. Himalaya

Also — Carpathians, Pyrenees, Balkans, Caucasus, Apennines, East Indies · the world’s highest peaks are in these young fold mountains, still little worn · fold mountains form by compression.

Trick 5

Block mountains — tension and faulting

⇄ Any order

Volunteers sat at the blackboard with silver chalk.

  1. Vosges
  2. Satpura
  3. Black Forest
  4. Sierra Nevada

Also — Ruwenzori, Salt Range · the Vosges and the Black Forest are Hercynian block mountains — hence volunteers and the blackboard in both tricks.

Trick 6

Dome mountains — pushed up by magma

⇄ Any order

A big hen went to the cinema.

  1. Bighorn
  2. Henry Mountains
  3. Cincinnati arch

The Black Hills too — all in the USA.

Trick 7

Accumulation (volcanic) mountains

⇄ Any order

Shalu wore a raincoat with a hood over her coat to fix the fuse.

  1. ShastaUSA
  2. RainierUSA
  3. HoodUSA
  4. CotopaxiEcuador
  5. FujiyamaJapan
Trick 8

Residual mountains — worn down by erosion

⇄ Any order

Arjun sat beside Raju and Nisha on a wet bench.

  1. Aravali
  2. Rajmahal
  3. Nilgiri
  4. Western Ghats

The Aravali formed by folding but is now a worn-down residual mountain · the Satpura is a block mountain, so it is not in this list.

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Plateaus

Types of plateau with examples, the stages of the erosion cycle, and where the major plateaus are.

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3

Plains

The names of the hills left standing on eroded plains, and Kashmir’s lake deposits.

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Lakes

Rift lakes, a lava-dammed and a synclinal lake, and the ten largest lakes by area.

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5

Islands

How islands formed, and the main islands of European countries.

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Deserts

Desert types by surface, why deserts form, where the main deserts are, and the deserts of Australia and southern Africa.

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Read the full chapter for the complete notes — a trick helps you remember the list; understanding comes from the notes.