Tectonic or Earth Building Processes. In the south island high country there are these processes.

Vegetation and Soil Development and Volcanic Processes Interaction. Volcanic Process and Climate and Denudation Interaction. Climate and Denudation and Vegetation and Soil Development interaction. The four elements of the ecosystem combine differently in different locations to produce contrasting natural lanscapes.

Vegetation and Soil Development Processes. What are Natural Processes? Natural processes are physical. Forces that build or destroy mountains. Others are biological, the work of native plants and other animals. For example, volcanic processes build volcanic mountains, climate and denudation processes wear them down, and vegetation and soil processes clothe them with plants. A process can be defined in. Volcanic processes are called internal processes.

Temporal change is the change of an area over time. In the Tongariro Volcanic Environment this temporal change has been going for over 250,000 years ago.