The rock and other material that a stream carries is known as its …..
Stream load
Question # 2
If a river’s load and discharge increased … then the river’s erosive power would decease or increase?
Increase
Question # 3
If precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration, then this will form?
A river system
Question # 4
What are braided streams?
A stream that has multiple channels divided by sediment bars.
Question # 5
What’s a disadvantage of living in a floodplain?
Property damage due to flooding.
Question # 6
What do we call a human-built structure that helps to control flooding?
An artificial levee
Question # 7
Which of the following is true of all lakes: most are located at low altitudes most last a long time in geologic terms most are short-lived in geologic terms
Most are short-lived in geologic terms
Question # 8
What’s a watershed?
the area drained by a river system
Question # 9
Streams that feed into another stream or lake are known as….
Tributaries
Question # 10
True of False --- the faster the river, the faster it erodes its channels.
True
Question # 11
Water collecting in a depression is the early step in forming what?
A lake
Question # 12
True or False --- load, discharge, and sediment are factors that widen and deepen a river channel.
False --- load, discharge, and gradient
Question # 13
Soil conservation is an indirect or direct method of flood control?
Indirect
Question # 14
What is the difference between a delta and an alluvial fan?
a delta forms in water, and an alluvial fan forms on land.
Question # 15
What is the zone of saturation?
The layer of an aquifer in which the pore space is completely filled with water.
Question # 16
What’s a spring?
A natural flow of groundwater to the surface
Question # 17
A sloping layer of permeable rock sandwiched between 2 layers of impermeable rock & exposed at the surface is called?
Artesian formation
Question # 18
What’s a stalactite?
A cone-shaped deposit of calcite in the ceiling of a cave.
Question # 19
Where does karst topography form?
both dry & wet areas
Question # 20
What is a recharge zone?
the area where water from the surface can move through permeable rock to reach an aquifer.