Drainage and ocean currents activity

Answer the following questions as fast as you can and you will

win this challenge

Remember: Spelling, Cleaning and Good Handwriting is going to help you to complete this challenge

1.What is a drainage basin?

2.Write the waterbodies where waters join together?

3.Missouri and American rivers are tributary rivers of …

Write the answer and then raise your hand to spell your answer to the class

4.Write other terms

that are used to

describe a drainage

basin.

There are six.

5.Draw a Drainage Basin surrounded by mountains . The mountains must have snow.

6.Explain what is an Endorheic Drainage

Basin?

7.Watch the video and answer what do you think is an Ocean Current?

8. You are going to have 10

seconds to see the following

map. You must write:

• What do the red arrows

represent?

• What do the blue arrows

represent?

• What kind of projection is it?

• Which zones are the hottest?

• Which zones are the coldest?Ready GO!!!

Copy the following paragraph and answer:9. What determines the height of a wave?10.Write two types of waves?

Ocean waters change continually as the winds and breezes blow across the water. These winds produce waves, the height of which is mainly determined by the depth of the water beneath the wave and the incline of the ocean floor. Classifications of waves vary; shallow and deep waves and longitudinal and transverse are two examples.

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth

11. Copy the following and draw a conceptual map that shows the three causes of TIDES

Tides are caused by: