What Water Can Do

In science there are a bunch of different physical activities that make something change. The end result of these changes are called effects. One type of effect is called erosion. Erosion is the physical process in the surface of the earth is worn away through some type of physical change. Today we are going to be making guess as to is doing the eroding and what is being eroded.

In the next series of pictures, I want you to hypothesize (take an educated guess) of what is doing the eroding, what is being eroded, and why might erosion be happening?

Things to keep in mind while analyzing the pictures:

  1. What do they all have in common?
  2. What is being eroded?
  3. Why is it being eroded?
Horse Shoe Bend - Grand Canyon
Horse Shoe Bend – Grand Canyon
Mountain stream Aval S-charl, tributary of the Clemgia, seeking a way through the rubble of an erosion field
Mountain stream Aval S-charl, tributary of the Clemgia, seeking a way through the rubble of an erosion field
An atoll, a type of island that used to be bigger.
An atoll in the Maldives

Image Sources

Horse Shoe Bend by KeYang

Mountain Stream

Atoll by Ishan

5 Replies to “What Water Can Do”

  1. Love these pictures! Great visuals to help support your lesson on water. I also like your questions and may have to borrow them sometime!

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