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Earth’s Bodies of Water

Earth’s Bodies of Water. What are Earth’s bodies of water?. Do Now. Write a haiku for lakes. Lesson Essential Question. How are bodies of water formed on Earth?. tributary. a smaller river that feeds into a larger river. River system. a network of a river and its tributaries.

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Earth’s Bodies of Water

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  1. Earth’s Bodies of Water What are Earth’s bodies of water?

  2. Do Now Write a haiku for lakes

  3. Lesson Essential Question How are bodies of water formed on Earth?

  4. tributary a smaller river that feeds into a larger river

  5. River system • a network of a river and its tributaries

  6. drainage basin • the land drained by a river system

  7. Streams • streams are bodies of water that flow over land in a channel • Source or beginning of a stream may be a: • melting snowfield • glacier • overflowing lake

  8. Rivers • Broad and deep streams

  9. Africa Nile River world’s longest river

  10. Asia • Chang Jiang or Yangtze • Water from Chang Jiang is used to grow about 70% of China’s rice crops

  11. Australia • Murray River • Australia’s longest continuously flowing river

  12. South America • Amazon River • At its mouth the Amazon empties more than 50 million gallons of water per second into the Atlantic Ocean

  13. North America • Mississippi River • “Father of Waters” in Algonquian Indian language

  14. Europe • Danube River • More than 300 tributaries

  15. Important Source • Cleaning • Drinking • Food • Transportation • Energy • Jobs “first highways” used by explorers, traders and pioneers

  16. Lakes • Bodies of water surrounded by land • Greek word= “hole” • Most are formed when water filled a hole or opening in Earth’s surface

  17. How are lakes formed? • water filled a hole or opening in Earth’s surface • glaciers gouged huge holes and basins in Earth’s surface and deposited water in holes as glaciers melted; during last ice age

  18. How are lakes formed? • Rain water collected in huge holes made in other ways • Crater Lake= formed in crater of an extinct volcano (western United States) • Huge crack in Earth’s surface

  19. Lakes • Deepest= Lake Baikal in Russia • Lowest lying= Dead Sea between Israel and Jordan • Highest= Lake Titicaca in South America

  20. Great Lakes • H= Huron • O= Ontario • M= Michigan • E= Erie • S= Superior • 1/5th of all fresh water on Earth is found in the Great Lakes

  21. Great Lakes • Identify the surrounding states

  22. Lake or Sea? • Dead Sea • Sea of Galilee • Caspian Sea • Called seas because they contain salt water (Southwest Asia)

  23. Ticket out the Door How are lakes formed?

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