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Rivers of Water - Design Your Own Experiment

Design Your Own Experiment

How to Select a Topic Relating to this Concept

Rivers of water have carved Earth's landscape, whether flowing in streams and rivers or creeping slowly as glaciers. You can try other experiments relating to rivers, involving topics such as water velocity and turbidity (amount of mud in the water) or a river's rates of erosion, depositionDropping of sediments that occurs when a river loses its energy of motion., and weathering. You might also investigate underground rivers or cave-forming rivers.

Check the For More Information section and talk with your science teacher or school or communmity media specialist to start gathering information on river questions that interest you.

Steps in the Scientific Method

To do an original experiment, you need to plan carefully and think things through. Otherwise, you might...

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