Weathering Erosion and Deposition
- Notes
- Learning Objectives
- Compare and contrast physical and chemical weathering, give examples of each.
- Describe the factors that affect weathering rates.
- Determine the agent of erosion based on sediment characteristics.
- Determine the shape of a stream channel based on the top down view of the stream.
- Explain how stream velocity changes with gradient, stream discharge, and stream channel shape.
- Determine the size of sediment that can be carried in suspension by a stream based on the streams velocity.
- Determine how the characteristics of sediment determine its deposition rate.
- Use terms size, density, and shape.
- Vocabulary
- Assignments
- RDRR - Weathering
- Read p. 182-185 Answer Questions 1-10 (Weathering)
- RDRR - Erosion Questions
- Bookwork: Answer Questions 11-29 (Erosion)
- Read p. 202-204 Answer Questions 1-4 (Deposition Rates)
- Read p. 204-206 Answer Questions 5-14 (Erosion / Depositional Interfaces)
- Read p. 207-210 Answer Questions 15-25 (Depositional Agents)
- Labs
- Videos
- None
- Animations
- Time lapse of a stream (Satellite view)
- Meander and Oxbow Formation
- Horizontal Graded Bedding
- Vertical Graded Bedding
- Glacial Weathering Erosion and Deposition
- Review