Soil Components
Erosion
Stream Table Experiments
Clean Water/Conservation
Grab Bag
100
Two of the four soil components we placed in our stream table
What are clay, sand, humus, and gravel
100
Our stream tables allowed us to observe this.
What is erosion?
100
This is where the water went when we sprinkled it over our soil.
What is into the soil? Or it was absorbed.
100
One way you can conserve water.
What is (many correct answers)?
100
Sprinkling water on our stream tables represented this real even in nature.
What is rain?
200
The component with the largest particle size.
What is Gravel
200
The wearing away and transport of earth materials.
What is erosion?
200
Each group built one of these structures to try to protect their 6-cube city.
What is a dam?
200
This must be done to water to make it safe to drink.
What is clean or filter?
200
These natural events caused homes in Everett to slip off their foundations.
What are mudslides?
300
The soil component we sprinkled into our running water to check for speed.
What is (marine) sand?
300
This famous tourist attraction in Arizona was formed by erosion.
What is the Grand Canyon?
300
The reason gravel appeared to rise to the top of the soil.
What is the sprinkled water pushed the smaller particles underneath?
300
Two other ways to conserve water.
What is (many good answers)?
300
This dam blocks the Colorado River and forms Lake Powell.
What is the Glen Canyon Dam?
400
What happens to soil stirred into water when the water slows down.
What is it settles?
400
What we call it when the earth that is moved by erosion settles somewhere new.
What is deposition or sediment?
400
We caught this in our catch bucket and sometimes in a graduated cylinder.
What is runoff?
400
Most of the fresh water on earth is found in these.
What are glaciers?
400
The correct pronunciation of humus.
What is hyoomus?
500
The component with the largest pore space.
What is gravel?
500
The process of rock breaking down.
What is weathering?
500
What the water was able to do even with the large rocks we placed in our stream table.
What is move them?
500
This fraction of the earth is covered in water.
What is 2/3?
500
We used this tool to measure runoff.
What is a graduated cylinder?
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