Erosion | Design Your Own Experiment
Design Your Own Experiment
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If you are interested in erosion or its effects, you can create many fascinating experiments. For example, you could study the effects on erosion of different kinds of plants growing in the soil. How about the difference between the size or age of plants? Or the number of plants growing in one place?
Or perhaps you are interested in the effects of human development (building) on erosion. What are the effects of concrete or pavement? What are the effects of deforestation or drainage of wetlands?
Erosion can also be caused by wind or ice. What would happen if you blew a fan over different kinds of soils?
Check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher or school or community media specialist to start gathering information on erosion questions that interest you. You may also want to find out if there is...
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