Erosion By Nature

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Many people in the world today wonder who and what shapes the earth. In this informative essay, you will learn just that. How is the earth shaped? The answer to that is people and nature.

Erosion is a big part of shaping the earth. Some different kinds of erosion are wind erosion, and water erosion, when something erodes, that means that it is tearing away at something. Because there is water flow, erosion causes the water to work its way through cracks and expand them. When it is windy outside, the wind erodes things like, mountains, houses, etc. According to “Erosion by Nature” it states that “When it rains, water flows downhill, sometimes making gullies. Each time it rains, the gullies get bigger.”

Another way that the earth is shaped,

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