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Topic: Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
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Key Learning: Earth is always changing.
What is the relationship between weathering, erosion, and deposition and their impact on
Earth’s geological features?
Concept:
Weathering
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Erosion
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Deposition
Concept:
soil formation
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What is
weathering?
What is
mechanical
weathering?
What is erosion?
What is deposition?
How are weathering
and erosion
different?
What landforms are
created by the process of
deposition?
Mechanical
weathering and
chemical
weathering
What is soil?
What
causes
weathering?
What is chemical
weathering?
What is
oxidation?
What is acid
precipitation?
What is mass
wasting?
What are the agents
that move
sediments?
What are the
components of
soil?
What is the
source of soil?
What is the
parent rock?
How does erosion
and deposition
affect rivers and
streams?
What affects the
formation of
soil?
What is a
meandering river?
What is the soil
profile?
How does a river
What are the
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erode and deposit
sediment?
characteristics of
the horizons of
soil?
What is a glacier?
What is humus?
What are the two
types of glacier?
What is bedrock?
How does a glacier
move sediment?
How does the
formation of soil
relate to the
processes of
weathering and
erosion?
What is plucking?
What is glacial
abrasion?
What is a moraine?
What is a till?
Vocabulary:
dissolve,
weathering
Vocabulary:
abrasion,
chemical
weathering,
mechanical
weathering,
physical
weathering,
biological
weathering,
expand,
root/ice/frost
wedging,
oxidation,
exfoliation,
cave, sink
hole, slump,
mass wasting,
slope, gravity
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Erosion,
channel,
meander,
stream, river
glacier,
continental
glacier, Valley
glacier, ice age,
plucking,
abrasion, till,
moraine, Ushaped valley,
V-shaped valley
Sand dune, alluvial
fan, delta, beach
leaching, bed
rock, parent
rock,
horizons,
profiles,
humus,
organic,
inorganic,
subsoil,
topsoil, sand,
silt, clay
Additional Information/Resources:
Brain pop
Safari Montage: Weathering and Erosion (gr. 5-8)
http://safari.glynn.k12.ga.us/?a=6856&d=02323AA
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Safari Montage: All About Weathering and Erosion (gr. K-4)
http://safari.glynn.k12.ga.us/?a=6543&d=00106AA
Safari Montage: Bill Nye Erosion (gr. 3-6)
http://safari.glynn.k12.ga.us/?a=49146&d=00275AA
Safari Montage: All About Soil (gr. K-4)
http://safari.glynn.k12.ga.us/?a=6540&d=00099AA
Safari Montage: Rocks and Soil (k-4) ** 9 minutes
How is rock extracted from the ground? What forces change Earth's
surface? In Rocks & Soil, children explore stages in the life cycle of
rocks, including the extraction of rocks in quarries and the
importance of broken-down rock in soil formation. Part of the
multivolume Science Clips for Children series.
http://safari.glynn.k12.ga.us/?a=121214&d=08446AA
NASA Science Education (NOTE: it says page not found, but the links
on the left DO WORK) Search through the tabs for very interesting
activities, including Soil Art and Lewis and Clark expedition and how
they did watercolor paintings just using different colors of soil
http://soil.gsfc.nasa.gov/soilfert/npk.htm
Dig It! Secrets of Soil
http://nacdnet.org/education/resources/soils/
Soil Lab – remember to click on the arrow on the top right for the
second page.
http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k6/lc/ntenvn/4/lcne4_2a.html
Georgia Soil – Tifton
ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NSSC/StateSoil_Profiles/ga_soil.pdf
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