Grad 7 Unit 08: Factors Affecting Earth Systems
- 1. What is a hurricane? What are the dangers from: winds, flooding, storm surge?
- 2. What is a flood? What dangers do they present?
- 3. What are the agents of (types/causes of) chemical an physical weathering?
- 4. What are water pollutants? How are they introduced to bodies of water?
- 5. How do weathering and erosion shape the land? What kinds of terrain features are caused by, or destroyed by weathering and erosion?
- 6. Why are mountain ranges that are very old typically lower in elevation than younger ranges?
- 7. How do plants affect weathering and erosion?
Describe/Define: Cave, river delta, valley, karst topography, mud/landslide, tornado, weathering, erosion, deposition.