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ES Unit 4 Rivers, Glaciers, Groundwater
ES Unit 4 Rivers, Glaciers, Groundwater
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Earth Science Rivers Glaciers and Groundwater
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What is this?
drumlin
erratic
esker
Moraine
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Most of the fresh water on the planet is locked up in
Antarctic ice sheet
Mississippi River
the Great Lakes
Alaska
3
What type of material could be in suspension in a river?
silt, clay and fine sand
coarse sand
Pebbles and boulders
branches and leaves
4
Niagara Falls empties the water from
the Great Lakes
St. Lawrence Seaway
Mississippi River
Lake Mead
5
What does a levee do?
increase flooding
decrease flooding
distribute fertilizer evenly
forms at the mouth of a river
6
Any rock debris left by glaciers is called
glacial tll
glacial milk
glacial drift
stratified drift
7
What river has the largest drainage basin in the US?
Colorado
Columbia
Des Plaines
Mississippi
8
Another name for the slope a river travels it called
channel depth
outwash plain
gradient
discharge
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Rivers deposit sediment due to
decreasing velocity
widening of the channel
oxbow lakes
an increase in velocity
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When a river empties into a lake or ocean, it can leave a fan shaped deposit called a
delta
oxbow
meander
levee
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What is in the picture?
stratified drift
glacial tiil
levee
moraine
12
What are ridges of till left by glaciers called?
drift
drumlin
moraine
esker
13
Rivers are always eroding their river beds. The lowest a they can erode the river bed is called
base level
discharge
outwash plain
drumlin
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Flash floods can not be caused by
slow steady rain
breaking of a dam or levee
sudden heavy rains
sudden warm temperatures melting snow and ice
15
The amount of "holes" in soil and rocks is called
porosity
permeability
impermeability
competence
16
What formed the Great Lakes?
acid rain
glaciers
continental drift
volcanic eruptions
17
Hard water has
a lot of ions
weights
rocks
ice
18
Sinkholes usually form in __________ rock
igneous
limestone
gneiss
sandy
19
What gave this valley its U shape?
an earthquake
a glacier
a river
wind and water
20
The level under which the ground is saturated with water
water table
zone of depletion
zone of saturation
artesian well
21
Glaciers are in every continent and the last ice age covered parts of every continent except
Greenland
N. America
Europe
Australia
22
The biggest factor determining how much a river can erode material is its
channel width
meander
velocity
discharge
23
What is in the picture?
esker
glacial till
stratified drift
moraine
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What cause this valley to have its V shape?
glaciers
plate tectonics
a river
snowmelt
