ee.2.3 Hot and arid landscapes

Content

• Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
  • How physical processes create unique landscapes in extreme environments
• Geographic knowledge and understanding
  • Physical and chemical weathering in hot arid environments, and erosion, transportation and deposition by wind and water
  • Hot, arid landscape features, including dunes, wadis, rock pedestals, mesas and buttes
• Case study or detailed examples
  • Neither is required by the syllabus
• Aims of this lesson
  • To be able to describe the arid environment processes of erosion, transport and deposition.
  • To be able to explain how arid processes contribute to the creation of landform features, including dunes, wadis, rock pedestals, mesas and buttes.

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