Incredible Earth
- For each feature below:
- find an “incredible” example and show its location
- explain how the landform is created (weathering, erosion and/or deposition)
- Organize the presentation under each theme listed below
- Find one place that experienced one of the listed natural/environmental disasters
- show where it is
- explain how the disaster occurred
- explain the effects on people
- explain how they’ve tried to adapt to it.
| Theme | Features |
| Mass Wasting | Soil Creep, Slump, Talus/Scree |
| Wind Erosion | Hamada, Deflation Hollow/Blowout, Ventifacts, Mesas/Buttes, Dunes, Loess |
| Alluvial Processes | Vertical Erosion, Headward Erosion, one drainage pattern (dendritic, annular, trellis, rectangular, radial), Meandering River, Oxbow Lake, Natural Levee, Alluvial Fan |
| Ground Water Erosion | Karst Topography, Sinkhole, Stalactites & Stalagmites, Artesian Well/Spring, |
| Glacial Erosion | Plucking, Cirque & Arete & Horn, Tarn, Hanging Valley & Truncated Spurs, Roche Mountonee, one Moraine type (lateral, medial, terminal), Drumlin, Kettle Lakes, Eskers, Glacial Erratic |
| Coastal Erosion | Spit, Bar, Cave, Arch, Stack, Tombolo |
| One Natural/ Environmental Disaster | Landslide/ Avalanche/ Sandstorm/ Flooding/ Desertification/ Groundwater Contamination |
Bonus challenge: Work out the cost of travelling to see each theme from Vancouver. You must find the cheapest way to see all these landforms!
- For driving, use linear distances to figure out gas cost (assume 10L /100km)
- Travel from airport to locations should be calculated too
- For flying, work out the cost of the plane tickets (proof needed)
- Assume no time restraints
- Show totals for costs
| Does Not Meet | Minimally Meets | Meets | Exceeds | |
| Mass Wasting |
-Missing many features listed -Most or all locations missing -Relevant weathering patterns are not identified -Relevant erosion or deposition processes not explained or incorrectly explained |
-Missing some features listed -Locations identified but not shown -Mentions weathering patterns but are not relevant or missing some relevant patterns -Explanation of erosion and deposition are not clear |
-All features incorporated -Location shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns -Can explain how erosion and deposition result in the features |
-All features incorporated -Specific and relative locations shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns with visual evidence -Can explain and show the processes involved in erosion and deposition that results in the features |
| Wind |
-Missing many features listed -Most or all locations missing -Relevant weathering patterns are not identified -Relevant erosion or deposition processes not explained or incorrectly explained |
-Missing some features listed -Locations identified but not shown -Mentions weathering patterns but are not relevant or missing some relevant patterns -Explanation of erosion and deposition are not clear |
-All features incorporated -Location shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns -Can explain how erosion and deposition result in the features |
-All features incorporated -Specific and relative locations shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns with visual evidence -Can explain and show the processes involved in erosion and deposition that results in the features |
| Alluvial |
-Missing many features listed -Most or all locations missing -Relevant weathering patterns are not identified -Relevant erosion or deposition processes not explained or incorrectly explained |
-Missing some features listed -Locations identified but not shown -Mentions weathering patterns but are not relevant or missing some relevant patterns -Explanation of erosion and deposition are not clear |
-All features incorporated -Location shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns -Can explain how erosion and deposition result in the features |
-All features incorporated -Specific and relative locations shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns with visual evidence -Can explain and show the processes involved in erosion and deposition that results in the features |
| Ground Water |
-Missing many features listed -Most or all locations missing -Relevant weathering patterns are not identified -Relevant erosion or deposition processes not explained or incorrectly explained |
-Missing some features listed -Locations identified but not shown -Mentions weathering patterns but are not relevant or missing some relevant patterns -Explanation of erosion and deposition are not clear |
-All features incorporated -Location shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns -Can explain how erosion and deposition result in the features |
-All features incorporated -Specific and relative locations shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns with visual evidence -Can explain and show the processes involved in erosion and deposition that results in the features |
| Glaciers |
-Missing many features listed -Most or all locations missing -Relevant weathering patterns are not identified -Relevant erosion or deposition processes not explained or incorrectly explained |
-Missing some features listed -Locations identified but not shown -Mentions weathering patterns but are not relevant or missing some relevant patterns -Explanation of erosion and deposition are not clear |
-All features incorporated -Location shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns -Can explain how erosion and deposition result in the features |
-All features incorporated -Specific and relative locations shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns with visual evidence -Can explain and show the processes involved in erosion and deposition that results in the features |
| Coastal |
-Missing many features listed -Most or all locations missing -Relevant weathering patterns are not identified -Relevant erosion or deposition processes not explained or incorrectly explained |
-Missing some features listed -Locations identified but not shown -Mentions weathering patterns but are not relevant or missing some relevant patterns -Explanation of erosion and deposition are not clear |
-All features incorporated -Location shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns -Can explain how erosion and deposition result in the features |
-All features incorporated -Specific and relative locations shown -Can identify relevant weathering patterns with visual evidence -Can explain and show the processes involved in erosion and deposition that results in the features |
| Effects |
-Location not identified -Does not explain the causes of the disaster -Does not explain how people were affected -Does not explain how people have adapted to such disasters |
-Location identified but not shown -Causes of the disaster not fully explained -Limited explanation of effects on people -Limited explanation of how people adapted to such disasters |
-Location shown -Causes of disaster explained -Effects on people explained -Explains how people have adapted to such disasters |
-Specific and relative locations shown -Causes of disaster explained and visual examples given -Effects on people explained and visually shown -Organized explanation of effects (political, social, economic) -Visually shows how people have adapted -Organized explanation of how people adapted (political, social, economic) |
| Citations | No citations |
Web address provided and hyperlinked
Or
Inconsistent citations |
MLA citations for images |
MLA citations for images Hyperlink and web address provided |
| Bonus |
Challenge: -no attempt
Aesthetics: -Basic slide show with still images -One main speaker |
Challenge: -price relative to the other projects -travel costs well proven -route clearly shown
Aesthetics: -organization of information -audience attention -well chosen images -multi-media -dynamic |
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/40 marks
/5 bonus