Earth’s Bodies of Earth’s Bodies of WaterWater
Quiz Tuesday October 9, 2012:Quiz Tuesday October 9, 2012:Chapter 1 Lesson 1 vocabulary and Chapter 1 Lesson 1 vocabulary and
weathering processweathering process
Lesson Essential Lesson Essential QuestionQuestion
How are Earth’s bodies of water formed? How are Earth’s bodies of water formed?
VocabularyVocabulary tributary: smaller streams of riverstributary: smaller streams of rivers
river system: a river and its tributariesriver system: a river and its tributaries
drainage basin: land drained by a river drainage basin: land drained by a river systemsystem
StreamsStreams streams flow over land in a channelstreams flow over land in a channel
most began on high grounds among hills most began on high grounds among hills and mountainsand mountains
sources: melting snowfield, glacier, or sources: melting snowfield, glacier, or overflowing lakeoverflowing lake
StreamsStreams streams flow from high to low groundstreams flow from high to low ground
at end of stream is mouth, where it at end of stream is mouth, where it empties into another body of waterempties into another body of water
Rivers pg. 26 2Rivers pg. 26 2ndnd paragraphparagraph
What is it?What is it?broad, deep streamsbroad, deep streams
How is it formed?How is it formed?many smaller streams many smaller streams coming togethercoming together
What are tributaries?What are tributaries?smaller streamssmaller streams
What is a river What is a river system?system?
a river and its tributariesa river and its tributaries
Africa: Nile RiverAfrica: Nile River Earth’s longest riverEarth’s longest river
Fact CheckFact Check Turn and TalkTurn and Talk How long is the Nile river?How long is the Nile river? Is the Nile river longer than the Is the Nile river longer than the
Mississippi?Mississippi?
Asia: Chang Jiang or Asia: Chang Jiang or YangtzeYangtze
What happened?What happened?
Fact CheckFact Check
Think-Pair-Share:Think-Pair-Share:
Water from the Yangtze River is used to Water from the Yangtze River is used to grow about ___________% of China’s grow about ___________% of China’s ___________ crops.___________ crops.
Australia: Murray RiverAustralia: Murray River transportationtransportation
I wonder…I wonder…
Why do you think many of Australia’s rivers Why do you think many of Australia’s rivers dry up for part of the year?dry up for part of the year?
Europe: Danube RiverEurope: Danube River
North America: North America: MississippiMississippi
Mississippi RiverMississippi River barge transporting goodsbarge transporting goods
South America: AmazonSouth America: Amazon Carries more water than Mississippi, Nile Carries more water than Mississippi, Nile
and Yangtze, combinedand Yangtze, combined
RiversRivers river systems drain, or carry water away river systems drain, or carry water away
from landfrom land
drainage basindrainage basin: land drained by a river : land drained by a river systemsystem
ImportanceImportance Many of world’s first civilizations Many of world’s first civilizations
developed along rivers because they developed along rivers because they provide:provide: transportationtransportation drinking and cleaning sourcedrinking and cleaning source foodfood tradetrade energy sourceenergy source
Summarizing StrategySummarizing Strategy
How are Earth’s bodies of water How are Earth’s bodies of water formed?formed?
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