learning objectives wa state standard 6-8 es2g students know that… landforms are created by...

45

Upload: drusilla-parrish

Post on 31-Dec-2015

219 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

Learning Objectives

WA State Standard 6-8 ES2GStudents know that…

Landforms are created by processes that build up structures and processes that break down and carry away material through erosion and weathering.

Learning Objectives

WA State Standard 6-8 ES2GStudents are expected to…

Explain how a given landform (e.g. mountain) has been shaped by processes that build up structures (e.g., uplift) and by processes that break down and carry away material (e.g., weathering and erosion).

What is Erosion?What is Erosion? The process by which weathered rock

and soil particles are movedmoved from place to place.

What is Deposition?What is Deposition? The process by which weathered

sediments are laid downlaid down in a new location creating new landforms.

5 Causes of Erosion5 Causes of Erosion Gravity Glaciers Wind Surface Water / Running Water Ocean Shoreline / Ocean Waves

1. GRAVITY1. GRAVITY PullsPulls rock and soil down a slope

Called Mass MovementMass Movement Can be RAPID

Rockslides Mudflow Avalanche

GRAVITYGRAVITY Can be Slow

Slump Creep

Mass Wasting Video Clip

2. GLACIERS2. GLACIERS Carry very largelarge to very smallsmall

debris Most powerful agent What do they deposit?

Form piles called morainesmoraines Drumlins – little mounds Glacial lakes Kettle lakes U-shaped valleys

MORAINES

DRUMLINS

GLACIAL LAKES

KETTLE LAKES

U-SHAPED VALLEYS

GLACIERS

Glacial Erosion clip

3. WIND3. WIND Removes looseloose material from the earth’s

surface. Amount of material carried depends on wind wind

speedspeed Most active in desertsdeserts, plowed fields, beaches

What does wind deposit? Loess-Loess- layer of fine silt or sand Dunes-Dunes- mounds of sand

LOESS

DUNES

Wind Erosion Clip

4. RUNNING WATER4. RUNNING WATERMAJOR CAUSE OF EROSION

When water moves it carries particle called the loadload.

SpeedSpeed of water determines the size of the load Creates canyonscanyons and valleys

What do rivers create/deposit?What do rivers create/deposit? Deltas OxbowOxbow lakes Flood plains

RIVER DELTAS

Mississippi River Delta Clip

OXBOW LAKES

FLOOD PLAINS

5. WAVES5. WAVES Constantly erode and shapeshape the

shoreline.

What landforms do waves What landforms do waves create?create? Sea cliffs Sea stacksstacks and caves

SEA STACKS

SEA STACKS & CLIFFS

Cape Flattery, Olympic Peninsula

SEA CAVES

What do waves deposit?What do waves deposit?

Beaches Spits sand barssand bars Barrier Islands

5. WAVES5. WAVES

Barrier Islands

Spits & Sandbars

LANDFORMS CREATED BY LANDFORMS CREATED BY LIVING THINGSLIVING THINGS

Erosion by Brainpop

1) What can help protect soil against erosion?

2) Name one surface feature caused by erosion.

3) Why can’t you see glacial movement in action?

Learning Objective

WA State Standard 6-8 ES3EStudents know that…

Living organisms have played several critical roles in shaping landforms that we see today.

Learning Objective

WA State Standard 6-8 ES3EStudents are expected to…

List several ways that living organisms have shaped landforms (e.g., coral islands, limestone deposits, oil and coal deposits).

Coral Islands Lava from an underwater volcano builds

up an island. Living organisms begin living around the shores of the island (polyps).

Volcano becomes inactive, sinks, coral dies, an island forms.

The formation is a hard rock-like material formed by the skeleton of marine polyps and sand (takes millions of years!)

Coral Islands Usually forms a ring and partially or

totally encloses a shallow body of water, or lagoon

Most are found in the Pacific Ocean

Limestone Deposits Form underwater from the shells

of dead animals

Takes millions of years!

Limestone Deposits

Oil/Coal Deposits Plant matter accumulates at the

bottom of a body of water (must be protected by from decomposition and oxygen exposure—usually gets covered by mud or an acidic water layer). Over millions of years, it forms into a hardened brownish black sedimentary rock.

Oil/Coal Deposits Coal is a fossil fuel and is the

largest source of energy and the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions

Coal is extracted from the ground by mining, either underground or in open pits.

Oil/Coal Deposits Oil is generally formed from

marine deposits and coal is generally formed from land vegetation.

SourcesSources http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

caves/form_bacteria.html