The Report
Meaning of the words
1.
V – shaped valley – a valley that was
been formed in a V shape as the river flows inside the valley, almost always
very narrow and created by the downward
eroding process that is when the water cuts the ground like a saw and carrying
away the bits and pieces of loose rock.
2.
Gorge – a division more or less of
two lands that a river can pass through it. The breaking process of the
waterfall normally creates the gorge; this is why sometimes you can see a
waterfall on the end or start of a gorge.
3.
Waterfall – a falling water that
falls down normally on edges lower than the one the water stands on. It can
break rocks in the process of falling making the gorge. It normally contains a
plunge pool that is when the soft rock under the top layer of hard rock is
broken making a more or less shape of a semi – circle that will lead to the
hard rock forming the ledge undercut that will break, and this process
continues.
4.
Meanders – a lake that goes up and
down through the deposition of materials. As time passes, the lake will be
growing wider and wider until it makes a meander.
5.
Oxbow lake – a meander that has been
cut of as the main stream of water takes a shortcut. It happens most to large
meanders that have been created thanks to deposition and erosion. The oxbow
lake really becomes one when the tips of it are finally sealed off and the
water flow is now stopped. It finally will be covered with soil and weeds and
in time the lake will
disappear.
6.
Flood plains – an area that normally
floods but does not always needs to be flooded.
7.
Delta – the end of the river, where
the river encounters the ocean and deposits everything that it brought with it.
The delta of the river is normally separated between other little rivers as the
deposits gave grown into larger numbers and makes little lands.
8.
Tributaries – where other small
little rivers join into the main river
9.
Source – it is where the river
starts, where it forms. It could be in a mountain, valley or even in any
flowing area of water.
10. Plunge
pool – an area where a waterfall has broken the soft rock under a layer of hard
rock making a more or less shape of a semi-circle.
What this
teached me
Well even
though we had already learned the basic ones in previous years, evaporation,
condensation and precipitation, we now here learned what made these items above
happen. A source is a good start as if we had not had any source at all;
nothing of the water cycle would start, as the water needs a source, somewhere
to start all of this process. This also teached me of all of the different
impacts the water cycle could have on the land like the V – shaped valleys and
the gorges, if we had not had the water cycle process, especially the eroding
process, we could not have had these valleys, not even the beautiful Cataratas
do Iguaçu. This new learning can effect on my future thoughts of how can water
be so powerful but beautiful.
Notes
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At the start everything running fine
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Second day Hétcor and Rafael started
doing planning while I was doing objects like gorge and V – shaped valley and
trees
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We than knew all of our planning in
the cardboard we just needed to paint to have a rough idea of everything
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We painted the rivers and planned to
where to put objects again
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We also decided we could not finish
all of this in school, so Héctor proposed to go to his house and we agreed
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In Saturday we brought everything we
had that could help us to his house and started working on the project
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We had fun while doing our project
and once we were finished or out of
materials, we decided to eat some ice cream so that in the next day of
Humanities we could buy and bring what we needed to finish our project in
school
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We now in the 28/9/15 are just
missing the utmost details and the signs and we are done with our project
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Everything went smooth in my opinion
and we had a bunch of fun together.
Bibliography:
Humanities book
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