Question: Death Valley, California Activity 15.4 Name: Course/Section: Date: Learning GOAL You will identify relationships between structural geology and landform development using a topographic map of Death Valley, California A Analyze the topographic map in Fig. A15.4.1 and complete the following tasks. Refer to Fig. 15.8 for guidance.

Question: Death Valley, California Activity 15.4 Name Course/Section:: Date: Learning GOAL You will identify relationships between structural geology and landform development using a topographic map of Death Valley, California. A Analyze the topographic map in Fig. A15.4.1 and complete the following tasks. Refer to Fig. 15.8 for guidance.

Question: Death Valley, California Activity 14.4 Name: Course/Section Date 3 kilometers 2 miles North Vegetation HContour interval 80 t t of the USGS 15-minute topographic quadrangle map of Furnace Creek, CA (1952) Figure A14.4.1 Par 393 A Analyze the topographic map in Fig. A14.4.1 aut complese the following tasks.

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ACTIVITY 1: Death Valley, California Death Valley us a dryland located in the lowest valley in the United States. Conduct this activity to explore the Death Valley region for dryland landforms and evidence of how the valley is forming. Death Valley is located in the USGS 15- minute Furnace Creek, California quadrangle (provided as an attachment).

ACTIVITY 7.2 Mojave Desert, Death Valley, California Name: Course/Section: Date: Death Valley is located in the USGS 15-minute Furnace Creek, California quadrangle (provided on the back of this activity sheet). It is the large valley (graben) in the middle of the map and the lowest valley in the United States (FIGURES 7.2,7.3).

Question: Death Valley California is below sea level. In the spring, snow from surrounding mountains melts and flows into the valley, forming temporary lakes. Because of the heat in Death Valley these lakes dry up. What mineral forming process is happening here?

This is not only the lowest elevation in Death Valley, it is the lowest in North America. Death Valley has been evolving for the past 16 million years or so as tectonic forces have pulled the crust apart across western North America and caused the crustal block of Death Valley to sink. What is the low elevation in Badwater Basin? 2.

1. Death Valley, California, is below sea level because of the weight of the glacial ice from the continental ice sheet that existed during the Ice Ages. T/F2. The California Transverse Range is a lateral glacial moraine. T/F3. The San Francisco Bay Area was covered by continental glaciers during the Pleistocene Ice Ages.