Plains & Plateaus

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Plains o Found on land, have rolling areao Low elevationso No hills and mountainso Large o 300 meterso Found in all continents and climates

One of them is in middle part of US, Great Plains. Great Plains are higher elevations, dry, grassy plains with few trees. Some of them turned into farmland, they grow wheat and corn.

Plateaus o Flat top mountains with steep sideso High mountainso Numerous mountainso No more than 1000 ft. (300 meters)o Sharp on each side of surrounding lando Elevation is higher than 1000 feet

Tibetan Plateaus is the

highest mountain in the

world

Alluvial plains

Alluvial plans form of steep mountain valley rivers flow onto more level lands, forcing the rush of heavy waters to spill over their banks and drape their sediments out like a fan.

Alluvial Plains

Coastal plainsCoastal plains are stretches of lowland next to oceans that are separated from the interior by highland features such as mountains and plateaus. Often the plains are portions of the ocean floor built up from the sediments rivers carry towards the sea. Geologists call the submerged part of coastal plains the continental shelves.