Vocabulary
What are the four main agents of EROSION
Water, Ice, Wind, Gravity
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Define the following vocabulary terms:
Dead zone
Dead Zone- A body of water where NO life exists.
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What is Mrs. Sesmers son, husband, and dogs name
Noah, Josh, and Ruby
Answer the two below questions:
1.) What powers the water cycle?
2.) The majority of water is found in (accumulated)....
1.) The Sun
2.) Oceans
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What are the two biggest ways humans impact land and water?
What are three specific impacts of these?
Agriculture and Industry
Increasing weathering, erosion, and deposition
Making the land more unstable
Increasing pollution
Define the following vocabulary term:
Deposition
After pieces of the Earth are carried by erosion they are deposited (dropped) somewhere else.
What are the types of chemical weathering? What are the types of mechanical weathering?
Chemical Weathering:
1.) Oxidation
2.) Hydrolysis
3.) Carbonation
Mechanical Weathering:
1.) Frost Wedging
2.) Unloading
3.) Thermal Expansion
4.) Biological Activity
5.) Abrasion
Earths landscape is always changing due to what?
Give me two examples.
Earths Processes. Examples include Water Cycle, Weathering, Erosion, Deposition
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The majority of water on Earth is primarily found in....
A.) Lakes
B.) Oceans
C.) Ice Caps
B.) Oceans
How can we mitigate the effects of Industry?
Regulations and laws:
control who, where, what and how often resources are used.
Do not allow the disposal of industrial waste in certain areas.
Protect areas like wetlands
Invest in cleaner Engineering technologies:
Lessen the amount of pollution released
Renewable focus
Define the following vocabulary terms:
Transpiration and Evaporation
Transpiration: The process of plants “sweating out” water
Evaporation: The process of water turning from a liquid to a gas.
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Define the following vocabulary terms:
Condensation and Run Off
Condensation:The process of water turning from a gas into a liquid. (Form of a Cloud or Fog)
Run off: The process of water flowing back through a surface
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Why should wetlands be protected?
Big Takeaways:
Wetlands naturally clean our Water. They filter out contaminants, like nutrients.
Slows down Erosion. Wetlands slow down soil erosion by slowing the speed of the water passing through them when streams overflow into wetlands.
What is a Watershed?
The entire area of land that water travels over to get to one larger body of water.
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What two ways we can mitigate the effects of Agriculture?
Manage fertilizers:
regulate the amount of nutrients in fertilizers
control where and how often they are applied.
Control Run-off:
re-direct runoff to treatment plants to remove most of the nutrients.
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Define the following vocabulary terms:
Accumulation/Collection and Precipitation
Accumulation/Collection: The process of water being brought together.
Precipitation: The process of water returning back to Earth. Rain, Snow, Sleet, or Hail
Define the following vocabulary terms:
Eutrophication and Hypoxia
Hypoxia: Low to NO Oxygen in bodies of water, causing life to die or relocate (move).
Eutrophication: Where an excess amount of nutrients flow into a body of water and cause there to be a “boom” in plankton and algae.
Explain the relatiosnhip between deposition, eroison, and weathering.
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What deadZone was created from the Mississippi watershed?
The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone
What ingredients are the most harmful in fertilizer?
Nitrogen
Potassium
Hydrogen
Phosphorus
Nitrogen and Phosphorus
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Define the following vocabulary term:
Weathering and Erosion
Weathering: the process of breaking rocks into little pieces through physical force or chemical reactions over time.
Erosion: The movement of the Earth's weathered features through wind, water, gravity, or other natural agents.
What are the two different types of weathering? Define each.
Mechanical/Physical and Chemical
Mechanical - Breaking down through physical force
Chemical- Breaking down through chemical reactions
A cliff beside the ocean and a hillside away from the ocean are both made of the same earth materials.
Explain which one (cliff or hillside) will erode faster and why?
A cliff beside the ocean will erode faster. This is because the cliff is in constant contact with agents of weathering and erosion where as the hill is NOT in constant contact. The waves from the ocean will constantly and continuously hit the side of the cliff (abrasion), That water will then erode those broken materials away. On the other hand, the hillside away from the ocean will erode much slower because it is not constantly and repeatedly being hit with agents of weathering (water, wind, ice,biological activity).
You have 5 minutes
Explain the water cycle in an order that is logical. Share the term and the definition.
You must use all terms, without Transpiration.
The water cycle can start anywhere- so I am going to start with collection/accumulation. The water is all gathered together in a body of water ( oceans, lakes, or ponds). That water is being heated by the sun, as the liquid water gets heated, it begins to evaporate. The liquid water is being turned into water vapor. This water vapor rises into our atmosphere, where it comes into contact with cooler air, and begins to condense into a cloud. This is called condensation. When the cloud gets heavy from all the water, the gravity start to put more pressure on the cloud, and it begins to precipitate. Precipitation can be in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail. Finally, the water that is precipitated forms a run off, where it travels back to a collected or accumulated body of water! And the cycle repeats!!
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Describe the steps that happen to create a dead zone. You must use the words Eutrophication, Hypoxia, and Dead zone.
Fertilizer enters bodies of water which the algae and plankton then eat up and BOOM in growth, this is Eutrophication. They grow so much that they cover the top of the water. This blocks the sun light from plants below the algae, so they start to die. Eventually all plants die which causes hypoxia to occur - this is little to no oxygen. This then causes the deadline- where no life can exist in this body of water.