The Work of Streams

6.2 - The work of streams

By O'Connor Nathaniel

The Grand Canyon

​How Erosion has formed the Grand Canyon

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Streams are very powerful. Over the course of 70 million years the great Colorado river has carved an amazing canyon.

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Multiple Choice

The process of breaking down rock by abrasion and grinding and by dissolving.

• Erosion

• Not Erosion

Multiple Choice

suspended load is noted as the what?

• large particles at the bottom

• the visible cloud of sediment suspended in the water

Multiple Select

Which of the following include a streams bedload?

• Solid material on the bottom

• larger particles

• suspended load

• dissolved load

Multiple Choice

An accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or ocean.

• river

• delta

• tributary

• bedload

Open Ended

Describe how deposition occurs during streamflow... (ex: do sediments get deposited when it slows down or speeds up)

Multiple Choice

rivers cutting into ______ valleys create the "V" shaped flow.

• wide

• narrow

This is land area that contributes to the water flowing through the Mississippi river.

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Mississippi River Drainage basin

Assignments

​3/29

3/29 - The work of Streams GC

3/29 - Quizizz GC​

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