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Landforms Jeopardy

Landforms Jeopardy. If you’re building a house along the bank of a river, why would it be a bad decision to remove all the trees and plants along the bank? (10 points). How does a steep slope affect a stream bed? (20 points).

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Landforms Jeopardy

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  1. Landforms Jeopardy

  2. If you’re building a house along the bank of a river, why would it be a bad decision to remove all the trees and plants along the bank? (10 points)

  3. How does a steep slope affect a stream bed? (20 points)

  4. Name one item (natural or man-made) that can help protect soil from water erosion. ( 30 points)

  5. Give an example of wind erosion. (40 points)

  6. Why is wind erosion a problem on the North Carolina coast? (50 points)

  7. When contour lines are close together, is the slope very steep or very flat? ( 10 points)

  8. On a map, one cm is equal to 2 meters. If two locations on the map are 10 cm apart, how many meters are they apart in actual distance? ( 20 points)

  9. What is the source of water that flows over and through the state of North Carolina? ( 30 points)

  10. On a map, every 5th contour interval increases by 50 m. How much does EACH contour interval increase by? (40 points)

  11. What does a meandering stream look like? (50 points)

  12. True or False: When water is poured onto a stream table, stream beds form in the soil. (10 points)

  13. Which of the following is a prediction? a. Erosion is the wearing away of earth materials. b. Yesterday, our flood experiment showed deposition. c. Slanting the stream table might make a larger river. d. The stream table earth material is made of sand and clay. ( 20 points)

  14. Which creates a delta: erosion or deposition? (30 points)

  15. How does gravity affect water flowing in the stream table model? (40 points)

  16. When you poured water onto your stream table, what happened to the soil that filled the river beds? (50 points)

  17. When one large river splits into several smaller rivers, does the river slow down or speed up? (10 points)

  18. A narrow river flows into a large lake. What do you expect to happen as the fast moving water pours into the lake? a. The river becomes full of lake water b. The river erodes the bottom of the lake c. The water slows and a delta forms (20 points)

  19. True or False: A tributary forms because a river slows. ( 30 points)

  20. Where does a river flow the fastest: at the top of a mountain or the bottom of a mountain? ( 40 points)

  21. What is the definition of a tributary? (50 points)

  22. What settles more: soil with a larger particle size or soil with a smaller particle size? (10 points)

  23. Which of the following forms underground caverns: freezing and thawing of ice, or water moving underground? (20 points)

  24. What is the purpose of putting a dam near a river that floods often? ( 30 points)

  25. Explain how ice can change rocks into soil. (40 points)

  26. What is a possible benefit for a town that builds a dam? (50 points)

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