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What Are Landforms?

Landforms shape the surface of the Earth. Landforms

often serve as geographical boundaries among places.

Where people choose to live is often decided by the

landforms on Earth. Landforms are important because

they separate countries or make movement di cult and

act as natural defenses.

Caravan in the Sahara Desert

Land covers around one-fourth of the Earth’s surface.

In some places, the land is too high to live in. In other

places, the land is too low. Some land areas are richly

green and others are dry and desolate (a desolate place

is a place that has no people living in).

Egypt has a variety of natural physical features that

shape the country, such as mountains, plains, deserts,

plateaus, rivers, and valleys.
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