Like this. Most people never venture into their crawl space so they have no clue what is under their house much less what is meant by a pier and beam foundation.
Concrete is poured into a tar paper cylinder and when it dries it is capable of supporting a huge amount of weight. The funny looking upside-down metal pan on top of it is intended to discourage termites; sometimes it works.
The pier is holding up a wooden beam and the beam is holding up the wooden floor joists that support the floor that you walk on. [A concrete slab foundation would have been poured directly onto the soil that you see here and therefore would not have been elevated and would have no crawl space.]
An easy way to determine which type of foundation the house has is this: Since a pier and beam foundation is elevated, there will likely be 3 or more steps leading to a porch. A concrete slab foundation will likely have but one step leading to what is called a stoop, not a porch. The finished floors of a pier and beam house will be much higher than the ground outside.
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