Water Unit

Ephemeral streams are prone to flash floods.

When a wave passes beneath you the water is not moving, its the energy passing through the water.

Cirque glaciers form ________

Ice shelves float next to a landmass.

The following is a picture of a _______ drainage pattern.

Icebergs form when ice calves from a glacier

All of the following are climate change impacts on our oceans except:

The average depth of oceans basins is less than the average elevation of the continents.

Groins are built ________ to the beach to trap moving sand

Unconfined aquifers are exposed at the Earth's surface

Calving is the process in which:

The following is a picture of a _____ drainage pattern

Upwelling refers to the rising of _____ water from deeper layers of the ocean

Transpiration is ________

Krubera Cave, Russia is the largest cave system in the world

The term phreatic means

Karst refers to:

Sheetwash refers to

Which is the largest type f sediment load?

Drainage networks do not typically change over time

Currents deflect to the ______ in the northern hemisphere.

Infiltration is _______.

Tidal cycles occur because _______ exerts a gravitational force on the Earth

Stream meanders increase the volume of water in a stream.

Glacial ice is brittle below ~60 meters in depth

Continental glaciers generally flow _____

Stream profiles are typically steepest in the uplands

Ocean salinity has 2 peaks around the _____ degrees north/south latitude.

Sublimation is the process of snow/ice changing into water vapor without melting into water

Polythermal glaciers experience both freezing and above freezing temperatures.

In curved channels, maximum velocity of water traces the _______

Glaciers form as loose snow gradually turns into ice.

A thalweg is ________

Stream competence is the total amount of sediment a stream is able to transport.

Streams generally do not become more sinuous with time.

Alpine glaciers are usually larger than continental glaciers.

Each ocean gyre has _____ currents associated with it.