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)