Mesa - a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a

relatively flat top: common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and
Mexico.
Butte - an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat
top; buttes are smaller than mesas, plateaus, and table landforms.
Canyon -
Steep (pronounced as Stip ) - rising or falling very sharply .
Explanation :

-Plateaus are built over millions of years as pieces of Earth's crust smash into each other, melt, and gurgle back
toward the surface. Some owe their creation to a single process; others have been subjected to more than one
during different epochs of Earth's history.

MESA - this one is in the American Southwest.Mesa is a Spanish word that means table.
Spanish explorers of the American southwest, where many mesas are found, used the word
because the tops of mesas look like the tops of tables.Mesas are usually found in dry
regions where rock layers are horizontal. The Grand Mesa in the U.S. state of Colorado,
considered the largest mesa in the world, has an area of about 1,300 square kilometers
(500 square miles) and stretches for 64 kilometers (40 miles).

BUTTE - The Mittens and Merrick Butte in Monument Valley, Arizona.

CANYON- Grand Canyon, Arizona. A canyon may also refer to a rift between two mountain
peaks, such as those in ranges including the Rocky Mountains, the Alps, the Himalayas or
the Andes. Usually a river or stream and erosion carve out such splits between mountains.

*The highest and biggest plateau on Earth, the Tibetan Plateau in East Asia ,Farther away, the crust uplifted
but didn't crumple and wrinkle, creating instead a raised, flat, and wide open expanse known as the "roof of the
world."

-Geologists believe a cushion of magma may have given the Colorado Plateau its final lift beginning about ten
million years ago.

The Columbia Plateau in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the Deccan Plateau of west-central India were
formed by these runny lava flows.

-Plateaus also form in the ocean, such as the Mascarene Plateau .