Constructive and Destructive Forces Layers of the Earth
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Constructive and Destructive Forces
Layers of the Earth
Constructive Forces Identify surface features caused by destructive forces. • Construct means to build up. • Forces that build up features on the surface of the Earth. – Sediment (Deltas, sand dunes, etc. ) – Volcanoes (makes Islands) – Tectonic Plates (Mountains) – Crust deformation (Folding or Faulting)
Sediment • The process of sediment being carried causes new landforms. – Wind – sand transported by the wind creates sand dunes. – Water – bits of soil and rock can be carried downstream and deposited causing deltas. – Ice – glaciers pick up and move rock and other materials, depositing it elsewhere.
Wind Deposition Sand Dune Cumberland Island, GA
Water Deposition Sediment is carried by river
Glacial Deposition
Volcano • http: //app. discoveryeducation. com/search ? Ntt=volcano+erupt • United Streaming-Fire Down Below
Volcanoes • A volcano is an opening in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash and gases to escape from deep below the surface. • Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a period of time. • Magma (inside) • Lava (outside)
Volcanoes • There are two main types of volcanoes: shield and composite. • Shield volcanoes are usually found in the middle of tectonic plates. Islands like Hawaii are good examples of this type of volcano. These are making new islands every year…takes a long time. (Hawaiian Islands) • There's a hole in the middle of the plate and magma moves out and piles on top of itself, slowly building a mountain of rock. (Katmai)
Volcanoes 1. Magma reservoir 2. Country rock 3. Conduit (pipe) 4. Base 5. Sill 6. Branch pipe 7. Layers of ash emitted by the volcano 8. Flank 9. Layers of lava emitted by the volcano 10. Throat 11. Parasitic cone 12. Lava flow 13. Vent 14. Crater 15. Ash cloud
HOT SPOT • http: //app. discoveryeducation. com/search ? Ntt=hotspot • United Streaming-Hot Spot
Tectonic Plates • Mountains can be formed because of moving tectonic plates.
Tectonic Plates
Faults • Faults are cracks in the Earth’s crust. • The surface of the Earth is made up of tectonic plates that are floating on magma (molten rock). • It is along these fault lines that earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
Destructive Forces Identify examples of surface features caused by destructive processes. • Destruct means to destroy. • Forces that destroy features on the Earth’s surface. – – Erosion (water - rivers and oceans, wind) Weathering (chemical or mechanical) Impact of organisms Earthquake
Earthquakes • An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from the sudden release of stored energy in the Earth’s crust. • It is caused by a strain on the fault lines of the Earth’s crust. When the energy of the strain is released, similar to a rubber band snapping, the earthquake occurs. • At the Earth's surface, earthquakes cause a shaking or displacement of the ground and sometimes cause the ground to break apart and change shape. Earthquake Animation!
Earthquake
Weathering and Erosion • Weathering is the breakdown of the continents and the land around you. The breaking down of these rocks and land due to forces such as wind and water is weathering. When it rains, rocks are washed down a mountain or down a stream. Soils are washed away. The ocean beats against a cliff and breaks it apart. If it is moved elsewhere it is called erosion.
Mechanical Weathering • Mechanical weathering is the process of breaking big rocks into little ones. This process usually happens near the surface of the planet. Temperature also affects the land. The cool nights and hot days always cause things to expand contract. That movement can cause rocks to crack and break apart. Roots and plants also push into the rocks and break them apart. They act like wedges and push the rocks apart. Little animals also help by burrowing and digging through the ground.
Chemical Weathering • Chemical weathering includes the effect of weathering on molecules and atoms. As with all chemistry, the greater the surface area of an object, the more chemical reactions can take place. For these chemical reactions to happen in nature, moisture, and heat must be present.
Biological Weathering (Impact of Organisms) • Biological weathering would include the effect of animals and plants on the landscape. This is more than roots digging in and wedging rocks. Biological weathering is the actual molecular breakdown of minerals.
Earthquakes • More than buildings collapse when an earthquake hits. The land itself is totally changed. You can see scars across the landscape. Those scars appear when one block of land has moved compared to another. Roads often change their placement. They either become uneven or just crack. Streams can also change course. Sometimes rocks can fall and block the stream. Other times, the land is even lowered in certain areas. When it's lower, it's easier for the water to flow in the new direction.
Earthquakes • San Andreas Fault line is 810 miles and runs along California. It separates the tectonic boundary of the Pacific and North America boundary.
Technology and Human Interventions • Humans try to CONTROL these forces. – seismological studies – flood control (dams, levees, storm drain management, etc. ) – beach reclamation (Georgia coastal islands)
Seismic Waves • Scientists study earthquakes so that they can understand how they work and so that they can try to predict future quakes. • Earthquakes are recorded by instruments called “seismographs”. • A short wiggly line means a small earthquake and a large one means a large earthquake.
Seismic Waves • These are waves of energy that travel through Earth’s layers studied by geologist. • Primary (P waves) travel fast • Secondary waves (S waves) travel through solids
Flood Control Lake Allatoona was created in 1950 by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for flood control. At more than 12, 000 acres, Allatoona is one of the larger lakes in the state. • The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers began constructing dams in Georgia for navigation and flood control in the 1940 s and 1950 s under the Flood Control Act of 1944 and the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954.
Flood Control Methods • Dams control the water flow in a stream or river. • A levee is an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river. • Storm drains are for carrying off rainfall drained from paved surfaces, roofs, etc.
Beach Reclamation • Weather, waves and wind cause the coastline to wash away. • Keeping sand dunes intact helps to keep the beaches from eroding.
Stone Mountain formed by plate tectonics
Emerson fault
Gorge
Providence Canyon, GA
Appalachian Mountains
Sand Mountain
Lime sinks-chemical dissolution of rocks
Pine Mountain Chain Rock and KY first state park
Cumberland Falls Only Falls with Moonbow
Beaches
Brasstown Bald highest natural point in GA
Brevard Fault Zone
Cumberland Plateau
Lookout Mountain last battle of Cherokees
Blue Ridge Mountains
Mississippi River largest drain in USA
- Constructive and destructive forces examples
- Examples of constructive and destructive forces
- Batholiths and laccoliths
- Constructive and destructive forces activities
- Is erosion constructive or destructive
- Constructive and destructive conflict
- Constructive and destructive conflict
- Rarefraction
- What are constructive waves
- Constructive and destructive interference
- Constructive communication meaning
- Constructive vs destructive interference
- Learn something
- Is strip mining constructive or destructive
- Constructive proof vs non constructive
- Constructive proof vs non constructive
- Constructive proof vs non constructive
- Proof by contradiction examples
- Erosion
- How do destructive forces change the land's surface
- 3 constructive forces
- Earth layers physical and chemical
- Define like and unlike parallel forces with examples
- Contact force
- Net force
- Layers of earth vocabulary
- Earth crust layers
- Which of earth's layers is the thickest
- Earth different layers
- Labelled hard boiled egg layers of the earth
- 3 layers of the earth
- Layers of earth
- Dense ball of solid metal
- The layers of the earth from innermost to outermost
- Which layer is the least dense
- Earth layers analogy
- How many layers of the earth
- The layers of earth from most dense to least dense
- Which of earth's layers is the thickest
- The earths layers foldable
- The earth's layers foldable
- The earth's layers foldable
- Mechanical layers of the earth
- The earth's layers foldable
- Throw your hands up for the layers of the earth
- Structural layers of earth
- Earth's foldable layers
- What layers of earth make up the lithosphere