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Landforms JeopardyErosion Map-reading
SkillsStream Tables Bodies of Water Mystery Round
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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)
Name one item (natural or man-made) that can help protect soil from water
erosion.( 30 points)
Give an example of wind erosion.
(40 points)
Why is wind erosion a problem on the North
Carolina coast? (50 points)
When contour lines are close together, is the
slope very steep or very flat?
( 10 points)
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)
What is the source of water that flows over and through the state of North Carolina?
( 30 points)
On a map, every 5th contour interval increases by 50 m. How much does
EACH contour interval increase by? (40 points)
What does a meandering stream look like?
(50 points)
True or False: When water is poured onto a stream
table, stream beds form in the soil.
(10 points)
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)
Which creates a delta: erosion or deposition?
(30 points)
How does gravity affect water flowing in the stream
table model?(40 points)
When you poured water onto your stream table,
what happened to the soil that filled the river beds?
(50 points)
When one large river splits into several smaller rivers, does the river slow
down or speed up? (10 points)
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 waterb. The river erodes the bottom of the
lakec. The water slows and a delta forms
(20 points)
True or False: A tributary forms because a
river slows. ( 30 points)
Where does a river flow the fastest: at the top of
a mountain or the bottom of a mountain?
( 40 points)
What is the definition of a tributary?
(50 points)
What settles more: soil with a larger particle
size or soil with a smaller particle size?
(10 points)
Which of the following forms underground caverns: freezing and thawing of ice,
or water moving underground?
(20 points)
What is the purpose of putting a dam near a
river that floods often? ( 30 points)
Explain how ice can change rocks into soil.
(40 points)
What is a possible benefit for a town that builds a
dam? (50 points)