Dams

=Effects of Dams on Water Quality=
 * Create a PowerPoint presentation on your group's topic. Visit the websites provided as a start and consider use other sites to supplement your presentation.
 * PowerPoints should include pictures and aim for **no more than 6-10 words on each slide.**

Group 1: Interrupting Natural Cycles []

Group 2: Armoring the Riverbed and Removing Sediment []

Group 3: Starving the River & Changing the Temperatures []

Group 4: Stopping Fish Migration & Erosion []

Group 5: Why we always seem to need more dams []

Group 6: Dams for Flood Control []

Group 7: Dams for Hydroelectric Power []

Click on the following link. In your notebook, please answer the questions below. []
 * __Dam Safety__**

1. What is known as the most dangrous type of dam? 2. Why don't these dams appear to be dangrous? 3. What do surface currents do? 4. What can currents above the dam do? 5. What swamps vessels and can drown boaters? 6. What can trap your vessel against the face of the dam?