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Carl Vincent B. Autida BSIT 2A Activity

The document provides definitions for 14 key terms related to geomorphology and landforms. It then presents a photo of a mountain forest and asks the student to analyze differences between it and another photo showing disturbed land. Deforestation and soil erosion are identified as causing the change. Negative impacts could include landslides and floods while infrastructure development could be positive. The student is asked to identify a local area undergoing geomorphological change due to human activity and discuss the road construction project in their community. Specific causes and consequences of processes like sedimentation, land subsidence, and mass movements influenced by human activity are also addressed.

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Carl Vincent B. Autida BSIT 2A Activity

The document provides definitions for 14 key terms related to geomorphology and landforms. It then presents a photo of a mountain forest and asks the student to analyze differences between it and another photo showing disturbed land. Deforestation and soil erosion are identified as causing the change. Negative impacts could include landslides and floods while infrastructure development could be positive. The student is asked to identify a local area undergoing geomorphological change due to human activity and discuss the road construction project in their community. Specific causes and consequences of processes like sedimentation, land subsidence, and mass movements influenced by human activity are also addressed.

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Carl Vincent B.

Autida BSIT 2A

Activity

For content familiarity and preparation, exhaust your resources/references and define the following
terms and phrases:

1. Geomorphology
The study of the physical features of the earth and their relation to its geological structures.
2. Landforms
A natural feature of Earth’s surface.
3. Mining
The process or industry of obtaining coal or other minerals from a mine.
4. Excavation
The action of excavating something, especially an archeological site.
5. Construction
The building of something, typically a large structure.
6. Anthropogenic landforms
Are created either directly by artificial processes, or indirectly by natural processes triggered by
human activity.
7. Lateritization
Is a prolonged process of chemical weathering which produces a wide variety in the thickness,
grade, chemistry and ore mineralogy of the resulting soils.
8. Hydrological Interference
The activities which have impact on the water cycle.
9. Ground Subsidence
Is a gradual settling or sudden sinking of the earth’s surface.
10. Sinkholes
Is a depression in the ground that has no natural external surface drainage.
11. Sedimentation
Is the tendency for particles in suspension to settle out the fluid in which they are entrained and
come to rest against a barrier.
12. Seismicity
The occurrence or frequency of earthquakes in a region.
13. Anthropogeomorphology
Is the study of the human role in creating landforms and modifying the geomorphological
processes such as weathering and erosion.
14. Slope Instability
Happens when the water can seep into the soil or rock and replace the air in the pore space or
fractures.

Analysis

1. Observe the above photo, what natural land form do you see?

The photo shows a mountain forest.


2. Analyze and state the difference between the two photos.
The difference between the two pictures is that the other one shows a healthy and
natural landform while the other shows how it was destroyed by various human
activities.
3. What human activity is responsible for this devastating change on this particular landform?
Deforestation is one of the reasons why the mountain was devastated. Also, soil erosion
which destroyed the natural form of land in the mountain.
4. How do you think will this land transformation affect the community around it positively and
negatively?
It may have a positive goal which is turning this area into an infrastructure due to
industrialization however It would likely bring danger to the area around it resulting to
landslide, floods, and damaged land due to soil erosion.

Application

1. Identify an area local in your community that have undergone geomorphology with human
intervention.
For me, the ongoing building of a road in the side of the sea which started in Liberty and now on
the Magsaysay area.
a. Describe the human participation and the event that took place all throughout the process.
This area has been a sea shore area up until the start of the rehabilitation and making of
the road which somehow looks a bridge.
b. What are the advantages and disadvantages of such modification in the environment?
The advantage of modification in the environment is that it mainly improves the place
itself. Making more modifications, improvements and changes leads to the
improvement of an economy of a particular place. On the other hand, along with the
goal of improving the society or environment, comes along a risk and that is slowly
destroying the natural order or state of an environment.
2. Read and analyze each question. Answer as concisely as possible.
a. Research on another example for landscapes created through construction and dumping. If
possible, paste the before and after of that certain landscape.

Before After
b. What are the causes and consequences of accelerated sedimentation?
Sediments transports by rivers are mainly caused by the humans. There are two main
ways, first is the construction of dams has caused much sediment to be trapped in
reservoirs and the other is due to sediment delivery to rivers has been increased as a
result of accelerated rates of soil erosion.
c. How do humans cause land subsidence?
Humans can cause land subsidence through by the transfer of subterranean fluids such
as oil, gas and water; by the removal of solids through underground mining or by
dissolving solids and removing them in solution, by the disruption of permafrost; and by
the compaction or reduction of sediments because of drainage and irrigation
d. In what ways may humans accelerate mass movements?
There are many examples of mass movements being triggered by human actions. For
instance, landslides can be created either by undercutting or by overloading. When a
road is constructed, material derived from undercutting the upper hillside may be cast
on to the lower hillslope as a relatively loose fill to widen the road bed.

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