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Chapter 13 - Earth Science 2020
Chapter 13 - Earth Science 2020
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What separates the zone of saturation from the zone of aeration?
aquifer
water table
recharge zone
water line
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What is the area called that is a narrow strait of flowing water confined by banks?
Watershed
Channel
River
Bank
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How do rivers begin?
A lot of water falls and makes a river
Rain floods the land which creates rivers
the ocean carries into the land
Trickles of h2o runover the ground and join in large streams
4
Tributaries flow toward the main river in a downhill path due to the pull of..
Gravity
Matter
Force
Suction
5
The point at which the river ends and goes into a larger body of water such as a lake or ocean.
Tributary
Mouth
Source
Channel
6
What is an Artesian Well
Zone of aeration
A well that reaches to a confined aquifer,
Zone of saturation
Water table
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How does a sinkhole form?
The bedrock/Limestone Dissolves under the surface.
The Bedrock/Limestone Falls through the surface.
The Soil Falls through the surface.
The Soil Dissolves under the surface.
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What is the major agent of erosion?
Water
Wind
Gravity
Ice
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The faster the water flows the more __________ it has and the more erosion it can cause.
Salt
Oxygen
Energy
Strength
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The deposits at the river's mouth build up a triangular/ fan shaped area called a __________.
Channel
Delta
Peninsula
River Bank
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If the banks are the sides of the river what is the bottom of the river called?
River Bed
River Ground
River Floor
River Bottom
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Where the river begins is called the ....
Channel
Mouth
Source
Lake
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What happens to the water that lands on the pavement?
It follows the slope of the pavement down into storm drain
It floods the town
It evaporates
It gets soaked up into the concrete
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When sediment settles in a new location this process is called....
Compaction
Cementation
Deposition
Erosion
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A broad flat valley through which the river flows is called...
River Plain
Channel
Flood Plain
Stream
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Smaller rivers and streams that feed into the main river are called...
Creek
Mini river
Tributary
Watershed
17
How does a river shape the land surrounding it?
Force of River water
Evaporation
Condensation
By Erosion and Deposition
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Another word for watershed it a
Drainage Basin
River Bed
River Bank
Tributary
19
Fresh water takes up what percent of the earth?
2
1
5
3
20
What is the longest Divide in North America that follows the line of the Rocky Mountains
Continential Divide
Triple Peak Divide
Great Divide
Longest Divide
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What causes a river to bend or make a meander?
The force of the water!
The compaction of the beds
erodes on outside of bend and deposition on inside of bend
The way the river bed is formed
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The boundary between the zone of saturation in an aquifer and the zone of aeration
recharge zone
groundwater
watershed
water table
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How does a river's volume of water change between it source and its mouth?
It increases
It decreases
24
What happens to run off that lands on grass?
It floods the grass
infiltration..the water soaks into the ground
It flows down toward the street
the water evaporates back up into the atmosphere
25
Factors that affect speed of water: 1. Volume of water 2. Shape of Channel and 3. ___________
Flatter river bed
More Rain
More Banks
Steepness of the slope
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The process by which soil and rock are moved from one location to another is called..
Deposition
Cementation
Erosion
Compaction
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What is the land area that supplies water to a river system?
Mouth of river
Watershed
Flood Plain
Tribultary
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The top of the zone of saturation...
drainage basin
water table
floodplain
aquifer
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The _____________ the water flows the more energy it has and it can cause more erosion.
Faster
Lower
Slower
Higher
30
A river and all of its tributaries make up a ...
Creek
Ocean
River System
Lake
31
Which of the following types of chemical weathering causes a karst landscape, such as a cavern.
acids in groundwater
water
lichens
acid precipitation
32
The many small streams that come together at the source are called what?
Sourcewaters
Headwaters
Mainwaters
Streamwaters
33
A confined aquifer is found below an impermeable layer of materials.
false
true
34
As a bend gets bigger, the meander can eventually form a crescent shape cutoff body of water ..
Channel lake
Crescent shaped lake
Oxbow lake
S shaped lake
35
Water that rubs against the sides and bottom of a channel slows down due to ________.
Gravity
Slope
Sediment
friction
36
What is the zone of saturation?
area in an aquifer that normally evaporates
area in aquifer that is completely filled with water
The very top of an aquifer
Water that runs off into the aquifer
37
An artesian well does not need a pump to obtain water.
true
false
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An elevated region that separates two watersheds is called a .....
Divide
Mountain
Separator
Hill
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Bed load is
light suspended sediments
large sediments that travel on streambed
cobbles & boulders travel on streambed by traction
sand that travel on streambed by saltation
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Does erosion happen on the inner or the outer side of the bank?
Outer
Inner
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A bend or turn in a rivers channel is called a ___________.
axis
channel twist
meander
turning point
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An artesian well is water under pressure from the
surface water
bedrock
aquifer
water table
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Sediments are deposited in an alluvial fan because...
At the bottom of a mountain water slows down, deposits rock
Mechanical weathering causes the mountain sediment to erode
The sediment from the mountain washes away to the delta
At the base of a mountain the water spreads out like a fan
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What is an aquifer?
question
A well
a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
The water table is the altitude (below ground) where the water level in a w
