This investigation will help you to:

1. Develop a research question and hypothesis about how sediment is deposited by running water.
2. Design a pilot test and an investigation to model deposition.
3. Analyze results from models to learn how deposition of sediment creates landforms: floodplains, point bars, and deltas.
4. Understand that erosion involves the biosphere, the geosphere, the atmosphere, and the hydrosphere.
5. Explain the roles of creativity and imagination in developing and testing hypotheses and models.

Meandering Stream
by Stephen Marshak

View an animation on the evolution of a meandering stream. Click on Part VI. Then click on 17.1: Evolution of a Meandering Stream. Then click on View Animation.

Floodwater Rise
Nicole Lentini and Paul Montesano from Rutgers University Department of Geography

View this PowerPoint simulation of Floodwater rise in New Brunswick due to Hurricane Floyd.

ODSN Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Service
NOAA

View animations of the Tar River Basin of North Carolina during floods.

Floods
GeoSolutions

Case study on floods and download a flood simulation.