What is a Conservationist By Collin Fulton Brady

What is a Conservationist? By: Collin Fulton, Brady Winters, Claire Williams, and Sofie Mayfield.

What is Erosion? • Earth’s surface is worn away by water, glaciers, wind, waves, etc. • You can stop erosion from happening by changing soil types, hill inclines, and soil treatments. Erosion is when the sediments move from place to place.

What is Flood Control? • The controlling of river flow with dams, lakes, rivers, etc. , to minimize the occurring of floods. • Flood control helps farming. A flood is an overflow or cover with Fun Factwater of wet lands. • Floods can develop slowly, • Technology can hurt flood • Technology can make over time, after rains, or in control. The factories we use flood control better just a few minutes with no to make flood control better because we know when signs of rain. produce smoke which can they will occur, where • Floods can create some very have harmful chemicals in it. they will be, and how important essentials, some of These harmful chemicals much damage is going them are wetlands, and can kill, or hurt marshes which are habitats for to take place! animals. aquatic/marine life.

What is Beach Reclamation? • Providing more sand for a beach that is eroding. It is beneficial for land owners and beach front • In beach reclamation owners. we use about 27’’ wide pipes. That makes it easier to get all of the sand back into place. • Some people are starting to believe that Beach Reclamation is a waste of money because of a video that talks about beaches that have been nourished erode 2 to 12 times quicker than an ordinary beach.

What are Destructive and Constructive Forces? What's the difference between them you may ask? Constructive forces are natural forces that build up the earth. While destructive forces are natural forces that destroy land. The difference between the two is that constructive forces builds while destructive breaks.

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