ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCE
RIVERS AND STREAMS VIDEO
During the video "Running Water 1" from Earth revealed series, take notes on:
1. Factors that affect the ability of a river to remove and carry sediment.
2. How streams erode their beds.
3. How rivers carry and deposit sediment.
4. Materials that are carried by rivers.
5. How and where rivers deposit sediment.
6. Features formed by river deposition.
7. Flood causes and effects.
8. Flood plain features, dangers.
9. Effects of dams in rivers.
10. River dynamics (changes) and equilibrium (balance).
11. River management and modeling.
12. Geologic factors that control the behavior of rivers.
13. Other information related to management of rivers.