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What kind of ecosystem is this? How can you tell?

What do you see?

How is the land used in this picture?

How do humans impact the land?

Erosion in Wisconsin [at] Grabers Slide American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, e.g., AEP-MIN73],

Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library American Memory, Library of Congress

What might this be?What makes you think that?

What don’t you see in this picture that you think you should see?

[An] eroding shore with fallen Oak, Thorn Creek, Illinois

American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, e.g., AEP-MIN73], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.

American Memory, Library of Congress

Is this a good example of erosion?

Why or why not?

[An] eroding stream bank with overhanging Oak, Thorn Creek, Illinois

American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, e.g., AEP-MIN73], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago

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American Memory, Library Of Congress

      

 

. [An] eroding shore with fallen Oak, Thorn Creek, Illinois. Library of Congress: American Memory.

      

 

Unknown. (n.d.). Erosion in Wisconsin [at] Grabers Slide. Library of Congress: American Memory, American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library.

      

 

Unknown. (n.d.). [An] eroding stream bank with overhanging Oak, Thorn Creek, Illinois. Library of Congress: American Memory, American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library.