10.6| Streams Lecture Reading Questions

Instructions

Complete the assigned reading, then answer the following questions. You have three attempts and no time limit. 

Learning Objectives

• Students can describe the role weathering, mass wasting, and erosion play in shaping Earth's surface and can provide and/or identify examples of each of these processes
• Students can differentiate between constructive and destructive geologic processes, are able to explain the energy driving these processes, and can identify examples of each
• Identify and describe how landforms are created by stream erosion and deposition
• Compare and contrast the physical characteristics of the three types of stream channels and locate each along a typical stream profile
• Calculate sinuosity and gradient and describe the relationship between the two