Les 8 - §1, 2, 3 Tips en tops van het Po

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Vorige week

Deze week

Planning

• We are going to go over §1, 2, and 3 using the practical assignment
• Time for an assignment

§2.1 How the Alps were formed

• Endogenic forces
• Relief

Horst and graben

• A very hard one to spot in google earth!
• Height differences caused by divergent plate movement
• The graben slides down

Relief (differences in height)

Mountain ranges: a series of connected mountains

• High mountain range (>1500m)
• Middle mountain range (500 - 1500m)
• Hills (200 - 500m)
• Lowland (0 - 200)

200 m

500 m

1500 m

0 m

Fold mountain range

• Could have been an easy one to add with most rivers
• Mountains formed by plates colliding

§2.2 Rivers of ice

Glaciers, and moraines

Firnbekken

Gletsjertong

§2.3 Catchment area of the Rhine

The river

• Goes from high to low
• So from the mountains to the sea

Sea

The river

Has three parts:

• Upper reaches
• Middle reaches
• Lower reaches

Upper

Middle

Lower

The river

In the upper reaches the river cuts itself into the landscape (erosion)

• V-shaped valleys

Upper

The river

In the lower reaches the sand gets put back (sedimentation)

• Meanders
• Delta

Lower

The river

Often forms a delta

• At the end of the river
• The river splits into many parts
• Makes new land

Lower

The river

often has little rivers flowing into it

• River system

The river

The catchment area is the area where water ends up in the main river

The river

The watershed (waterscheiding) is the border of the catchment area

To work (homework)

Chapter 2 -> choose your assignment -> choose assignment B