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Tunnels and Mountain Passes: Engineering Through Rock

Built Structures, Water Systems, and Environmental Adaptation

5th Grade·Social Studies·US-UT-SS

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Explain how tunnels are blasted and bored through mountains to enable direct transportation routes.

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Built Structures, Water Systems, and Environmental Adaptation

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-UT-SS

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Examine human-engineered buildings, tunnels, and water systems, and discover how humans adapt their designs to match the natural landscape.

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1.2.2Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Differentiate between natural and engineered geographical features in an area (for example, engineered geographic features include highways, bridges, airports, railroads, buildings, dams, reservoirs).