Department
of Earth Science |
Northeastern
Illinois University
INTRODUCTION
TO EARTH SCIENCE
ESCI
121
Spring
2007
Daily Objectives
#22 (April
16, 2007)
Dr. Sanders
Reminder:
Homework #6 is due at class time today!
By
the end
of
today’s class, you should be able to do the
following:
* List and
explain factors that can affect the rate of water infiltration
into the subsurface.
* Develop and use a test that allows you to determine how rapidly water
can infiltrate into different kinds of soil.
* Develop a method for using the stream table to model processes of
meandering streams and delta formation.
* Graph the stream discharge data you collected for Homework #6.
* Describe some of the ways various watersheds might
differ
from each other in terms of hydrologic characteristics (e.g. size of
drainage area, degree of urbanization,
and so on).
© 2007 Laura L. Sanders. Last updated April
16, 2007.