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2. Relief
Follow these steps to carry out your research:
1. Describe the relief you have chosen
First, identify the different areas in your chosen relief, and the characteristic features, both natural and man-made. In
the photo below you can distinguish four areas:
2. Determine the agents that have influenced the relief
Ask yourselves which agents have been involved in the formation of the relief
(orogeny forces, volcanoes, earthquakes, rivers, glaciers, sea, wind, etc.). How have
these agents shaped the relief?
For example, in the relief shown in the photo above, the main agent is the water in the river and the
secondary agent is human action that has modified the fluvial terraces and reduced the forest area to cultivate
fields of crops.
Procedure
The imprint of time on relief
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Imagine that
National Geographic
(the famous geography, archaeology and natural
science magazine) wants to write a report about the relief in the area where you live
and requests your collaboration. Choose an area of relief where you live and analyse
its main characteristics, its origin and the different natural and human
agents that have modified it over time.
Work in groups. Share the information you have collected in the unit activities
and choose the area you are going to investigate.
You can obtain information from the Internet and if you have the opportunity,
visit the place accompanied by an adult.
Preparation
Consult the
Geological Heritage
web page at the following
address:
MATERIALS
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Notebook
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Card, glue
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Computer with Internet
access
Eachgroup cananalyse the landscape
from each perspective and follow
all the steps or concentrate one
only. Give your report a title.
Riverbed
River, islets, fluvial deposits on
the river banks, trees and bushes.
High fluvial terrace
Cultivated fields, houses, gullies
and ravines on the slope between
the two terraces.
Low fluvial terrace
Trees and cultivated fields.
Mountain slope
Forest, houses.
In groups or
individually
