Students will be able to:
use information from online sites and classroom discussion to
-differentiate between erosion and deposition.
-explain how the agents of erosion shape/reshape teh earth.
The do now was an FCAT transparency.
Watched a BrainPop movie on erosion.
Students then took notes on erosion and deposition:
Erosion, the transfer of weathered sediment, always involves deposition, or the deposit of the weathered sediment in a new location. Along with weathering, erosion and deposition are responsible for the continual reshaping of the Earth's surface. Sediment is constantly being worn down by some type of weathering, carried away by an agent of erosion and deposited in a different place. Landslides are actually a very extreme, fast-acting method of erosion: They transfer sediment down a slope and deposit it at the end of their path. The sediment a landslide deposits is known as its talus.
The five agents of erosion are wind, water, glaciers, waves and gravity. Gravity is the underlying agent of all types of mass movement. Without the force of gravity to pull sediment down an incline, a landslide would not occur. But any of the other four agents can also play a part.
There was no home learning, but there will be a mini assessment tomorrow.
