Wet Designers

Wet Designers

Wet Designers
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 3 to 4
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.09

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		absorb, boulders, erosion, landform, landforms, rainstorm, rainwater, steeper, material, beautiful, natural, pounding, landscape, backyard, waves, however
	content words:		United States, Grand Canyon

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Wet Designers
By Trista L. Pollard

¹     The earth's beautiful landscape has been brought to you by water! Flowing or moving water is a major reason the earth's surface changes over time. Let's look at how water changes the earth's surface.

²     Many earth materials, like soil and rocks, absorb water. After a rainstorm, some of the water is absorbed into the ground. The rest of the water that is not absorbed flows across the ground. You see this water flowing in streams, rivers, and oceans. When water flows across the earth's surface, it erodes or wears away the land and rocks. Scientists call this erosion. As the water moves, it washes away the soil, the rocks, and other small earth materials. Over time, this changes the way the land looks.

³     In the western part of the United States, one of our most beautiful landforms was created this way. A landform is any natural structure that is found in nature like rivers, trees, and islands. After a million years of water eroding the soil and rocks, the Grand Canyon was born! Water continues to wash away huge amounts of rocks and soil from the banks or sides of rivers and hills each day. The soil and rocks are then washed into streams and rivers. Eventually, these earth materials are carried into the ocean. The ocean's waves also pound the cliffs and boulders (huge rocks) on the coast into sand.

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