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Objectives
1. Distinguish between weathering and erosion.
2. Identify variables that affect the rate of weathering.
3. Analyze the impact of living and nonliving things on the processes of weathering and erosion.
4. Describe the relationship of gravity to all agents of erosion.
5. Describe how soil forms
6. Explain the relationship between the organic and inorganic components of soil.
7. Identify soil characteristics.
8. Recognize soil horizons in a soil profile.
1. Identify factors that affect mass movements.
2. Relate how mass movements affect people.
3. Analyze the relationship between gravity and mass movement.
4. Describe conditions that contribute to the likelihood that an area will experience wind erosion.
5. Identify wind-formed landscape features.
6. Describe how dunes from and migrate.
7. Explain the effects of wind erosion on human activities.
8. Explain how glaciers form.
9. Compare and contrast the conditions that produce valley glaciers and those that produce continental glaciers.
10. Describe how glaciers modify the landscape.
11. Recognize glacial landscape features.
1. Explain how surface water can move weathered materials.
2. Explain how a stream carries its load.
3. Describe how a floodplain develops.
4. Describe some of the physical features of stream development.
5. Explain the process of rejuvenation in stream development.
6. Explain the formation of freshwater lakes and wetlands.
7. Describe the process of eutrophication.
2. Identify variables that affect the rate of weathering.
3. Analyze the impact of living and nonliving things on the processes of weathering and erosion.
4. Describe the relationship of gravity to all agents of erosion.
5. Describe how soil forms
6. Explain the relationship between the organic and inorganic components of soil.
7. Identify soil characteristics.
8. Recognize soil horizons in a soil profile.
1. Identify factors that affect mass movements.
2. Relate how mass movements affect people.
3. Analyze the relationship between gravity and mass movement.
4. Describe conditions that contribute to the likelihood that an area will experience wind erosion.
5. Identify wind-formed landscape features.
6. Describe how dunes from and migrate.
7. Explain the effects of wind erosion on human activities.
8. Explain how glaciers form.
9. Compare and contrast the conditions that produce valley glaciers and those that produce continental glaciers.
10. Describe how glaciers modify the landscape.
11. Recognize glacial landscape features.
1. Explain how surface water can move weathered materials.
2. Explain how a stream carries its load.
3. Describe how a floodplain develops.
4. Describe some of the physical features of stream development.
5. Explain the process of rejuvenation in stream development.
6. Explain the formation of freshwater lakes and wetlands.
7. Describe the process of eutrophication.
Vocabulary
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Power Points & Notes
Note Packet
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Reviewing Earth Science The Physical Setting Ch. 4 CLICK HERE
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Graphing Activity
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Activities
Activity 1- Weathering Lab (exploring physical and chemical weathering) HERE
Activity 2- Settling Rates Lab (by Todd Hembury) HERE
Activity 3- Virtual River
Work through the river discharge and river flooding activities to better understand river processes.
Websites
RegentsPrep.org- W/E/D & Landforms HERE
Physical Weathering
Chemical Weathering
Erosion
Glaciers
Surface Water
Questions1. What velocity would flowing water pick up a pebble?
2. What velocity would flowing water drop a pebble? 3. What velocity would flowing water pick up a cobble? |