Arche Arches Everywhere

Explore on Your Own Rocks and Soil

Arches, Arches
Everywhere!

by Allison K. Lim



Arches, Arches
Everywhere!

by Allison K. Lim

Look at the land. What do you see?
Arches, arches everywhere! This is
Arches National Park. People didn’t
carve these rocks. Nature did!

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HB15 23 v HB15 24
US/Utah v Utah
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Long ago, there were no arches here.
There were large chunks of rock.
Wind and water caused weathering
and erosion.

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v Weathering and erosion
v changed the rock. Over time,
v the rocks changed shape.
vThey turned into arches.

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Double O v

This is Double O Arch. Wind v
and rain carved two circles in
this rock. The big arch is easy
to see. But a much smaller
arch is below it.
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These are The Spectacles. Spectacles
are glasses. Wind and rain carved two
openings in this rock. The openings are
shaped like eyes.

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This is Landscape Arch. It is the
largest arch in the park. Wind and
rain made this arch long and skinny.

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v This is Delicate Arch. Many
v people visit this arch every day.
v Wind and rain made this arch
vtall with a narrow opening.

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This is Pine Tree Arch. A pine v
tree grows in the middle of this v
arch. Wind and rain carved a v
jagged hole in this rock.
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This is Sand Dune Arch. It sits in a
pile of deep, reddish sand. Wind
and rain carved a smooth hole in
this rock.

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Weathering and erosion still
change the arches. They wear
away the rock. As the rock
gets weaker, some arches
break and fall. Gravity pulls
the arches to Earth.
This was Wall Arch. It fell
in 2008.

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v Acknowledgments
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Photographic Credits
Cover (bg) Tim Fitzharris/Minden Pictures/National Geographic Image Collection;
Title (bg) Digital Vision/Alamy Images; 2-3 Patricia Hofmeester/Shutterstock; 4-5
DigitalStock/Corbis; 5 John Foxx Images/Imagestate; 6 Bryan Brazil/Shutterstock;
6-7 Chad McDermott/Shutterstock; 8-9 Bryan Brazil/Shutterstock; 9 George F.
Mobley/National Geographic Image Collection; 10 Michael Hare/Shutterstock; 10-11
Michael Hare/Shutterstock; 12-13 Brian Hartshorn/Alamy Images.

Illustrator Credits
3 Mapping Specialists.

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Program Authors
Kathy Cabe Trundle, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Early Childhood Science Education, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio; Randy Bell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Science Education, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Malcolm B. Butler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Science Education,
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida; Nell K. Duke, Ed.D., Co-Director of the Literacy
Achievement Research Center and Professor of Teacher Education and Educational Psychology, Michigan
State University, East Lansing, Michigan; Judith Sweeney Lederman, Ph.D., Director of Teacher Education
and Associate Professor of Science Education, Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois; David W. Moore, Ph.D., Professor of Education, College of Teacher
Education and Leadership, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

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