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Earth science · Physical geography
Landscape Lab
Shape a landscape in a sand table, let rivers carve canyons and deltas, push a glacier through a valley, dissolve a cave, and see how Cappadocia's fairy chimneys formed.
Earth science · Physical geography
Landscape Lab
Shape a landscape in a sand table, let rivers carve canyons and deltas, push a glacier through a valley, dissolve a cave, and see how Cappadocia's fairy chimneys formed.
The course
7 worlds · 25 lessons
World 1 · Shape the Land with Water
FREEWeathering, runoff, erosion, transport and floods- 01Rock to rubble: weatheringHow solid rock breaks down where it sits · 10 min
- 02Water finds the way: rain on a slopeRunoff, streams and drainage basins · 10 min
- 03Pick up, carry, drop: erosion, transport and depositionHow speed and grain size decide what a river does · 11 min
- 04How much water? Discharge and floodsA one-line formula for river flow, and what floods really are · 11 min
World 2 · Canyons, Meanders and Deltas
PROFollow a river from the mountains to the sea- 01Cutting down: gorges, waterfalls and canyonsThe steep upper course and the slow, deep cut · 11 minPRO
- 02Why rivers wiggle: meandersCut banks, point bars and oxbow lakes · 11 minPRO
- 03Floodplains and levees: the lower courseWhat a flood builds, and what a flood wall changes · 10 minPRO
- 04Building a delta: where rivers meet still waterSediment, waves, tides and shifting channels · 11 minPRO
World 3 · Glaciers Carve U-Valleys
PRORivers of ice, the valleys they leave and the sea level question- 01How a glacier is born: snow to iceAccumulation, melting and the equilibrium line · 11 minPRO
- 02Plucking and scraping: glacial erosionHow slow ice reshapes solid rock · 10 minPRO
- 03V becomes U: features of glaciated landscapesA field guide to what ice carves and what it drops · 11 minPRO
- 04Which ice raises the sea? Floating ice versus land iceArchimedes, an ice cube and the ice sheets · 12 minPRO
- 05Reading what ice left behind: past glaciersErratics, moraines and the last ice age · 10 minPRO
World 4 · Caves, Stalactites and Stalagmites
PROHow water dissolves rock, then rebuilds it drop by drop
World 5 · Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia
PROVolcanic tuff, hard caps and a landscape people carved into- 01Ash that became rock: where the tuff came fromThe volcanic foundation of central Anatolia · 10 minPRO
- 02Hard hat, soft body: differential erosionWhy a tower stands where the cap protects it · 11 minPRO
- 03Living in the rock: people and the landscapeCarved rooms, a World Heritage Site and the cost of visiting · 10 minPRO
World 6 · Ice Cores: Reading Old Air
PROSnow layers, trapped bubbles and 800,000 years of data
World 7 · Landscape Detective
PRORead the clues and name the process- 01River or glacier? Reading valleysCross-sections, floors, side valleys and the things left behind · 10 minPRO
- 02Water below ground: caves, sinkholes and springsRecognising karst from the surface · 10 minPRO
- 03Which process made this? Field-guide challengeFive mystery landscapes and the honest answer 'it depends' · 12 minPRO