Chapter 4: Shaping landscapes

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Chapter 4:

Shaping landscapes

• Section 4.1.: types of exogenous forces & types of rocks
  
• Section 4.2.: Weathering
• Section 4.3.: Glaciers
• Section 4.4.: Erosion by water (rivers and sea's)
  
• Section 4.5.: sedimentation
• Section 4.6.: Erosion by wind
  

Section 4.1.:

Learning goals:

- Describe which forces helped to shape places like Yellowstone National Park;

- Explain the difference between weathering and erosion;

- Explain the differences between rocks.

Endogenous forces are forces that shape our planet from the inside (e.g. volcanoes, earthquakes).

Exogenous force or process that changes our earth from the outside. 

Three exogenous forces:

Weathering

Erosion

Deposition

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Three types of rocks

• Igneous rocks: volcanic rocks consits of solidified magma or lava (igneous means burning);
• Sedimentary rocks: from loose sediment that because of pressure became rock;
• Metamorphic rock: used to be a igneous or sedimentary rock but changed (=metamorphed) because of pressure into a metamorphic rock
  

Igneous rock

Basalt

Granite

Sedimentary rocks

Limestone

Sandstone

Metamorphic Rocks

Slate

Gneiss

Rock cycle

Because of heat and pressure the type of rock can change.

Section 4.2.:

Learning goals:

You will be able to:

• Describe the three different types of weathering;
• Explain which factors affect the weathering process;
• Explain the effects of weathering on human activities.
  

When rocks are formed they will be break down in smaller fragments.

This breaking down under influence of temperature, precipitation and/or vegetation is called weathering.

Three types of weathering:

1. Physical weathering
2. Chemical weathering
3. Biological weathering.

Read the information on pages 84 and 85 of your textbook

Link the next statements with the type of weathering:

• You need a lot of water;
• Happens in warm climates;
• Happens in cold climates;
• The rocks only crumbles;
• Not found in deserts;
• Substance of the rock changes
  

Peltier diagram

Section 4.3. Glaciers

Learning goals:

• Desbribe and name the different components of glaciers and their landscapes;
• Explain how glaciers formed landscapes
• VWO: explain how glaciers formed parts of the Netherlands
  

Make a wordlist with all the different components of a glacier.

When the ice is gone the U-shaped valley with its hanging valleys becomes visible

Ice in the Netherlands

Section 4.4. Water and waves

Learning goals:

1. Explain how the Grand Canyon was formed. 

2. Compare and contrast erosion from rivers and the sea 

3. Explain solutions to stop coastal erosion.

Watch the movie and explain  in max 10 sentences in your own words how the Grand Canyon was formed.

Waterfalls

What do we need?

- Rocks with a different strength.

The overlaying harder rock doesn't erode as fast as the underlying softer rock.

Section 4.5. Sediment deposition

1. Explain how rivers form deltas; 

2. Describe how the Mississippi delta landscape was affected by Hurricane Katrina;

3. Explain the Saffir-Simpson scale;

4. Explain what wetlands are and how they are formed;

5. Describe how the Dutch delta is protected from floodings.

If rivers flow through an area with less relief they will deposit the sediments and form a delta. Especially "flat" countries as the Netherlands are known for its deltas. 

What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a delta?

Deposition

When the relief becomes less the river will deposit its sediments in the form a delta. The heavier the fragments the earlier the sediment will deposit, the leighter the later.

Order these sediments from heavy to leight:

Sand, pebble, clay, gravel

Hurricanes (Saffir-Simpson scale)

Hurricanes

Especially low land areas located near the tropics have a risk of getting to deal with hurricanes. 

- What could happen to these areas?

- Why do hurricanes only form near the tropics?

- What is the difference between a hurricane, cyclone and typhoon?

- How do we measure the force of hurricanes?

Wetlands