Landscape Low-poly 3D model

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A landscape denotes the visible features of an area comprising its landforms, natural or man-made elements, living components, transitory aspects, and cultural influences. It encompasses geophysically defined land forms including mountains, hills, water bodies like rivers, lakes, ponds, and sea. Landscapes also include vegetation, human-induced land use, buildings, structures, weather conditions, and lighting. These landscapes are crucial to local and national identity as they reflect a synthesis of people and place that has developed over millennia. They provide the backdrop for human life activities and can vary from farmland, landscape parks or wilderness to icy polar regions, mountainous terrains, arid deserts, islands, coastal landscapes, densely forested regions like boreal forests and tropical rainforests, and agricultural lands of temperate and tropical zones. The practice of modifying visible land features is referred to as landscaping. The discipline of geomorphology studies the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features resulting from physical or chemical processes at Earth's surface. Geomorphologists strive to understand why landscapes look a certain way, delve into landform history and dynamics, and predict changes through field observations, physical experiments, and numerical modeling. The field is practiced within physical geography, geology, geodesy, engineering geology, archaeology, and geotechnical engineering, contributing to diverse research interests. The Earth's surface is shaped by a combination of surface processes sculpting landscapes and geologic processes causing tectonic uplift and subsidence, shaping coastal geography. Surface processes involve the action of water, wind, ice, fire, living organisms on Earth's surface along with chemical reactions forming soils and altering material properties, the stability and rate of change of topography under gravity force, and other factors like human landscape alteration. Many of these factors are mediated by climate. Geologic processes include mountain range uplift, volcano growth, isostatic changes in land surface elevation responding to surface processes, and sedimentary basin formation where Earth's surface drops and fills with eroded material from other parts. The Earth's surface topography emerges as an intersection of climatic, hydrologic, and biologic action with geologic processes. Landscape ecology is the science that studies and improves relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems across a range of landscape scales, spatial patterns, and research and policy organizational levels. It encompasses diverse landscapes such as farmland, wilderness, icy polar regions, mountainous terrains, arid deserts, islands, coastal landscapes, densely forested regions like boreal forests and tropical rainforests, and agricultural lands of temperate and tropical zones. These landscapes reflect a synthesis of people and place that has developed over millennia and play a crucial role in local and national identity while providing the backdrop for human life activities.