How Ravines Affect People
Ravines can impact food production by creating a shortage of this for growing food.
What is removes land for agriculture?
This occurs as soil washes away.
What is erosion?
This hole in the ground has a river running through and can be very deep.
What are canyons?
Stuðlagil [ˈstʏðlaˌcɪːl̥] is known for its basalt rock column formations and the blue-green water that runs through it in this frozen country.
What is Iceland?
A ravine is ________ than a canyon.
What is narrower?
A __________ can split a town apart.
What is a ravine?
___________ creates natural wonders like volcanos and earthquakes as well as ravines.
What are tectonic plates?
This narrow opening or fissure can appear in rocks.
What is a crevice?
The Bam Bam Amphitheaters are large erosional ravines found in Wonga-Wongue Presidential Reserve in one of the smallest countries in Africa and world (as you learned from Mr. Roberts).
What is Gabon?
What is steep?
As ravines get deeper they can expose and give access to valuable _______.
What are resources?
This type of body of water erodes the soil to create ravines.
What is running water?
These ground depressions have no natural way for water or rainfall to escape.
What are sinkholes?
The Barranco de Badajoz or Chamoco and Barranco del Infierno ravines can be found on the Tenerife Island of this country.
What is Spain?
This flowing water more than a drip, but less than a river can be found in some ravines.
What is a stream?
Ravines can grow and continue to ______ expanding into neighborhoods and roads.
What is erode?
______ soil is usually found in areas with ravines.
What is loosely packed?
This describes the area between two mountains or hills.
What is a Valley?
Gravina, is Latin meaning rock, shaft or erosion of bank river, and can be found in this European country.
Italy
Ravines can have wet season or ________ streams.
What is year-round?
Ravines provide _______ for creatures.
What is a habitat?
Divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates move _______ from each other, create ravines in the ocean floor.
What is away?
These underwater ravines can be super deep.
What is a Trench?
The Toronto ravine system is a distinctive feature of the city's geography, with a network of deep ravines that runs through most of Toronto in what country?
What is Canada?
Ravines can be _______ than valleys.
What is deeper?