Browse North Carolina State Standards

 Competency Goals:: 2: The learner will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of landforms.
Objectives:
2.01: Identify and analyze forces that cause change in landforms over time including.
   Water and Ice.
   Wind.
   Gravity. 2.02: Investigate and discuss the role of the water cycle and how movement of water over and through the landscape helps shape land forms. 2.03: Discuss and consider the wearing away and movement of rock and soil in erosion and its importance in forming:
   Canyons.
   Valleys.
   Meanders.
   Tributaries. 2.04: Describe the deposition of eroded material and its importance in establishing landforms including:
   Deltas.
   Flood Plains. 2.05: Discuss how the flow of water and the slope of the land affect erosion. 2.06: Identify and use models, maps, and aerial photographs as ways of representing landforms. 2.07: Discuss and analyze how humans influence erosion and deposition in local communities, including school grounds, as a result of:
   Clearing land.
   Planting vegetation.
   Building dams.