---
title: "SES3: Erosion and Landscape Change (Georgia Science standard)"
code: SES3
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Science, SES3
subject: science
grades:
  - high-school
language: en
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# SES3: Erosion and Landscape Change

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explore the actions of water, wind, ice, and gravity as they relate to landscape change.

- Subject: Science
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/science/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SES3.a**: Plan and carry out an investigation that demonstrates how surface water and groundwater act as the major agents of physical and chemical weathering.
- **SES3.b**: Develop a model of the processes and geologic hazards that result from both sudden and gradual mass wasting.
- **SES3.c**: Construct an explanation that relates the past and present actions of ice, wind, and water to landform distribution and landscape change.
- **SES3.d**: Construct an argument based on evidence that relates the characteristics of the sedimentary materials to the energy by which they were transported and deposited.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.