Water Is A Vital Part Of Life On Earth

Out wash has small sediments sorted in layers, and Till has large sediments not sorted into any layers. Till can leave behind features like Kame, Drumlins, and Moraines. Drumlins are elongated hills of till. Drumlins can be found in Central Minnesota and/or South of Brainerd. Moraines are very large ridges of Till. Moraines can be found in West/Central Minnesota. Outwash can leave features behind like Outwash Plains and Eskers. An Outwash plain formed by melt water of a glacier. Outwash plains are important because they are very great for farming which is a huge part of America. Glaciers can leave behind features like Kettle Lakes. Kettle Lakes formed by ice chunks falling off the main glacier, causing an indent on the earth's surface. Then the ice chunk will melt causing the hole to fill up with water. Most of Minnesota’s Kettle lakes are in Moraine/Terminal Moraine

For the first paragraph we shall have a quick focus on the geological history of the area of Kalamazoo. The main deposits and formations of the Kalamazoo area where formed during the Wisconsin glaciation period. Now the deposits are actually due to two lobes during this period, the lobes are the Lake Michigan and Saginaw lobe. Kalamazoo is actually know as a “reentrant district” due to the presence of two different lobes materials. During the middle of the Wisconsin Ice Age the Lake Michigan lobe was extending southeastward, while the Saginaw lobe was extending southwest. With the meeting of the two lobes an interlobate developed between the terminals of the lobes. It is also thought that the two lobes overlapped each other. With the Saginaw lobe covering the Kalamazoo area first and then retreating while the Lake Michigan lobe then covered the area. There are also some bedrock formations in the area as well, these formations were established during

Minerals are what make-up Rocks and rocks are what make up the geology of an area. In this report, we will focus on the geology of Ontario through its rocks. We will look at ten difference rocks samples that have been collected from several different places here in Windsor Ontario including the beach, the river, gravel pits, along highways and roadways as well in parks and campsites. The rocks that were collected are all rocks that have formed right here in Ontario.

Starved rock and St. Peter Sandstone are an erosional remnant of Ordovician period. These remnants contain Pennsylvanian clastics that survived the washing out of the Illinois River at the end of the Ice Age. Evidence for swift, turbulent, and deep water includes gravel bars and erosional features as high as 160 feet above the current level of the river, massive cross bedded sand, and gravel deposits along the river course.

The present configuration of the Great Lakes basin is the result of the movement of massive glaciers through the mid-continent, a process that began about one million years ago. . . . Studies in the Lake Superior region indicate that a river system and valleys formed by water erosion existed before the Ice Age. The Glaciers undoubtedly scoured these valleys, widening and deepening the and radically changing the drainage of the area (Encyclopedia Britannica )

Michigan is one of the fifty states within the United States of America and is favored with having the largest shoreline within the U.S. It is characterized by two peninsulas, the upper peninsula (which is obviously cooler) and the lower peninsula which holds a vast majority of the land and also a big chunk of us, Michiganders. The name Michigan comes from the Chippewa Indian word Michigama which means great or large lake. Lake Michigan was called Michigama by the Chippewa Indians. Our unique state is luckily surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes. The Great Lakes in our region have vastly influenced our state and those around us. Without Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, and Lake Erie, we would not have the large fresh water sources we currently are blessed with, many jobs would not exist, recreational activities would be slim to none, and we simply wouldn’t have the gorgeous views all around us. To say the very least, the state of Michigan is

As this river of ice moved slowly over the hidden rocks, the base of the glacier grazed millions of sediments in the Earth. The after math composed of soil, pebbles, cobbles and boulders that pushed forward, smashing rocks into glacial dust. Then the climate began to warm. Melted water from the glaciers carried the soils and rocks away from the dissolving glacier, depositing its leftovers throughout the landscape. This combination of soils and rocks deposited. Then low hills, or moraines, were created across the state. Michigan's glacial drift averages 200 to 300 feet. The scraping of boulders created particles. The heaviest pieces formed ridges, which made the stream's flow in a certain direction. Lighter materials were carried further, dropping on the way as the flowing water slowed. These materials dried forming enormous, flat colored areas of sand, silt, clay creating a mixture called the outwash plains. The weight of the glacier over the Michigan basin was dropping, and the Earth began to recoil, like a sponge coming back to its original shape. The Michigan landscape began to appear. Plants began to approach on the shriveled landscape. Individual plants found a suitable growing environment near each other, which created a suitable home for

Geologists have said that the deep granites are the "roots" of the mountains that were once here more than two billion years ago (Belmont Mound State Park Geology). The sandstones and limestones, that the mound is composed of, was originally deposited on top of the granite as the sea bottom of the sea that once covered a major part southern Wisconsin (Belmont Mound State Park Geology). Since Belmond Mound is in the Driftless area, the erosion patterns that carved southwestern Wisconsin are what created the mound. Over the 400 million year erosion cycle, streams removed the sandstone limestone, and dolomite from the southern part of Wisconsin (Belmont Mound State Park Geology). The remains of these minerals in this region exist only as tiny remnants on the tops of the Blue, Platte, Belmont and Sinsinawa mounds. If these mounds were not capped by the Niagara dolomite in the area, they would have been cut down to the level of the lands surrounding them (Belmont Mound State Park Geology). The Belmont Mound is an example of the southern mesic and dry-mesic forests in Wisconsin. The east central part of the woods is more mesic with sugar maple being the dominant species while larger red oak, basswood, and white ash dominate the remainder, with some black walnut mixed in (Belmont Mound Woods No. 167). The areas of the mound that were the focus of the study were the Southern (day one) and Eastern (day two)

Another way that the earth is formed, and especially our area of Michigan is deposition. Deposition is the laying down of the sediments that have been picked up and moved. This is the very opposite of what erosion. When all of the soil, rock, and other materials are picked up, there comes a point when the wind or water cannot carry them anymore. When they drop them back to the earth, it is known as deposition. Just like in any other transformation, there are many different forms or ways. The different way of deposition depends on the weight of the item and velocity it is being

The Importance Of Water To Living Organisms Water is normally the most abundant component of any living organism. As most human cells are approximately 80% water and 60% of the human body is made up of it, it is extremely important in many different ways to both the survival and the well being of living organisms. Evolutionists believe that life probably originated in water and even today thousands of organisms make their home in it. Water also provides the medium in which all biochemical reactions take place. The importance of water to living organisms originates from its many properties including its solvent properties, its high specific heat capacity, its high latent heat of vaporization,

Thesis statement: Fresh and clean water is vital to the very existence of the human race.

Water- Water is of the utmost importance and essential to the survival of everyone. It is the number one priority as one can die after a few days of not drinking water. I would assign 450 people working in groups of 3 to scout the island for all possible freshwater sources. In each group, there will be at least one person aged 18+ because they will most likely have the necessary education to better find freshwater sources. The other two people will be 12-50 as they will have the necessary energy go on the expedition to find the water. If no freshwater sources are found by the first day, I will devote 750 people to the task of scouting for freshwater sources and 150 people (15+) working in groups of 2 exploring other creative ways to produce water (distillation, rainwater, groundwater etc.) until we have a stable source of hydration (enough for each person to drink 1.25litres of water a day).

Water is an essential part of human lives. People not only need water for consumption, but also utilize it daily in several ways; this includes bathing, washing, sewage/waste, watering outdoors, etc. Water is essentially everywhere. Although access to water in the United States often seems so simple and easy, water is not always in the form people see coming out of the faucet. There are a variety of water sources on the Earth. Although from several sources, water has a distinguished cycle on the planet. Examining the water cycle and the sources of water on the earth can help bring a better understanding of water usage and available resources.

“In spite of the fact that water is accessible on this planet in vast amount however it is not uniformly conveyed. It possesses 70% of earth surface from which 2.5% is viewed as fresh water and the staying 97.5% is exceptionally saline Ocean” (Lenine, 1983).

Michael Garbachev, the ex-president of the Soviet Union and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, once said that ‘water has the power to move millions of people’. Earth has water everywhere on the surface, underground, and above the earth in the air. There is only 2.5 percent of fresh water share in total global water availability and it is only 1.2 percent of all fresh water. Why is water so important? The simple answer is Water is essential for meeting human needs and wants. It is used directly for drinking, sanitation, and food production, and only slightly less directly for economic production across a very broad range of sectors. It is thus a primary basis for sustaining human well-being for generations to come.. Dr. Bhumbla, a