Chapter 3 – Erosion & Deposition Unit 5

1. Chapter 3 – Erosion & DepositionUnit 5 Chapter 3 Mr. Ochoa 6th grade teacher

2. Chapter Units • 3-1 Changing Earth’s Surface • 3-2 Water Erosion • 3-3 Waves & Wind • 3-4 Glaciers

3. Objective and Starter • Objective: Today you will learn about erosion and mass movement. • Starter: What do you know about erosion? • Create a KWL chart

4. Objective and Starter • Objective: Today you will learn about erosion and mass movement. • Starter: What do you know about erosion? • Create a KWL chart

5. Background Information • What happens when you step on loose rock or dirt? • What natural events can cause sediment to move?

6. Sediment • Material that is moved by erosion.

7. Erosion • The natural process by which natural forces move weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

8. Deposition • The process by which transported materials are left in a new lactation.

9. Gravity • The force that moves rock and other materials downhill.

10. Mass movement • Different types of movement; these include landslides, mudflows, slump, and creep.

11. Turn to page 88

12. Lesson Review • Turn to page 91

13. Water ErosionChapter 2 section 2 Mr. Ochoa 6th grade teacher

14. Objective and Starter • Objective: Today you will learn about water erosion. • Starter: What happens when erosion occurs?

15. Background Information • Do you know any major rivers or lakes in the area? Where are they located? Where does the water come from?

16. Runoff • Water that moves over Earth’s surface.

17. Rill • Tiny grooves in soil.

18. Gully • A large groove or channel in soil that carries runoff after a rain storm.

19. Stream • A channel along which water is continually flowing down a slope.

20. Energy • The ability to do work or cause change.

21. Flood Plain • The flat wide area along a river.

22. Meander • A loop like bend in a river.

23. Oxbow Lake • A meander that has been cutoff by the river.

24. Alluvial Fan • A wide sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain.

25. Delta • A landform built from sediment from a runoff from the ocean or lakes.

26. load • The amount of sediment a river carries.

27. Turn to page 94

28. Lesson Review • Turn to page 103

29. Drifting ContinentsChapter 3 Section 3 Mr. Ochoa 6th grade teacher

30. Objective and Starter • Objective: Today you will learn about waves and wind. • Starter: What happens when sediment is carried down the river.

31. Background Information • How can you explain the sand and waves at the beach? • How do waves affect the beach? • How do you think beaches form?

32. Headland • A part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean.

33. beach • An area of wave washed sediment along a coast.

34. Long shore drift • The process whereby beach material is gradually shifted laterally as a result of waves meeting the shore

35. Spit • A beach that projects like a finger into the water.

36. Sand Dune • A deposit of wind-blown sand.

37. deflation • The process by which wind removes surface material.

38. loess • Fine wind deposited sediment.

39. Turn to page 108

40. Lesson Review • Turn to page 114

41. GlaciersChapter 3Section 4 Mr. Ochoa 6th grade teacher

42. Objective and Starter • Objective: Today you will learn about glaciers. • Starter: What causes a beach to form?

43. Background Information • Is there a difference between snow that has just fallen or snow that has been on the ground for a long time?

44. Glacier • A large mass of ice that moves slowly over land.

45. Continental glacier • A glacier that covers much of a continent.

46. Ice Age • Continental glaciers that have covered large parts of Earth’s surface.

47. Valley glacier • A long narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley.

48. plucking • Rocks picked up when a glacier moves across the land.

49. Till • A mix of sediments that a glacier deposits directly on the surface.

50. moraine • A ridge that forms when a till deposited at the edges of a glacier.