A Virtual Field Trip:

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A Virtual Field Trip

• Death Valley National Park

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Terms to Know

• Erosion The physical removal by mobile agents,
  such as water, wind, or ice.
• Mass Wasting The transfer of rocks and soil
  downslope under the influence of gravity.
• Mechanical Weathering The physical
  disintegration of rock, resulting in small
  fragments.
• Chemical Weathering The process by which the
  internal structure of minerals is altered by the
  removal and/or addition of elements.

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Welcome to Death Valley National Park
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Artists Palette features a large variety of
minerals jumbled together.

• The Park covers 4,219 square miles (13,518 square
  kilometers)

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First Non-Native American to enter Death Valley
in 1849.
Goodbye Death Valley
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Devils Golf Course and Badwater
2nd lowest point in Western Hemisphere
Devils Golf Course
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Devils Cornfield
Hills near Salsberry Pass

• Death Valley receives 1.7 inches (43 mm) of rain
  annually at Badwater.
• Some years fail to register any measurable
  precipitation.
• Annual average precipitation varies from 1.90
  inches (48 mm) to over 15 inches (380 mm) in the
  higher mountains that surround the Valley.

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When the rain does come

• Ephemeral Streams a stream that is usually dry
  because it carries water only in response to
  specific episodes of rainfall.

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Alluvial Fan
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Even in the Desert, there is Life.
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Virtual Guide of Dante's View
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Moonrise on the Panamint Range