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Intro to Lake Compounce Triassic Park Experience

Your trip to Lake Compounce will review many topics studied in Environmental Earth Science class. This assignment today will help you connect your classwork with the Lake Compounce tasks. Remember that your work at Lake Compounce will be collected and graded. The questions on this assignment are not in the same order they will be in your Lake Compounce packet.

1. Topographic maps. You used topographic maps a few times in class this year. Take a look at the review of how they work at http://mac.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/ . How do topo maps show:

1.1 steep slopes?

 

1.2 hill tops?

 

1.3 wetlands?

 

1.4 quarries?

 

 

2. Geologic History. Review your CT Plate Tectonic History assignment. More information can be found at: http://g3.tmsc.org/face_of_ct/index.html. Lake Compounce is located at the edge of Connecticut's central rift valley. What happened here?

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Rocks and Minerals: Review the rock cycle at: http:// www.science.ubc.ca/ ~geol202/ rock_cycle/ rockcycle.html Describe the formation of three of the kinds of rock found in the bedrock here in CT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Water Systems. Read the article on water conservation at: http://www.drought.state.ct.us/well.htm and review your classwork on groundwater and streamflow. How does your use of water affect the watershed in which you live?

 

 

 

 

 

5. Glaciation. What products of deposition by glaciers can be found in CT? Describe their formation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other useful links: Lake Compounce main web site, their school page, an aerial photo of the area from Mapquest, another aerial photo and a topographic map of the area from TerraServer.


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