Stream Work
Water Cycle
Depositional Features
Running Water
Groundwater
100
Determines a stream's ability to erode and transport material.
What is velocity?
100
What is an unending circulation of water?
The water cycle
100
A triangular-shaped feature that forms where a river enters the ocean or a lake.
What is a delta?
100
The stream can carry more material when _______ increases.
What is velocity?
100
Forms where the water table intersects the grounds surface.
What is a spring?
200
The sediment carried by a stream along the bottom.
What is bed load?
200
Balance in the water cycle means
What is amount of Precipitation = amount of Evaporation/Transpiration?
200
Created when a stream is far above its base level, when level ground surrounds the river.
What is a floodplain?
200
Heavier sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom.
What is bed load?
200
Type of rock that usually underlies a KARST landscape
What is Limestone?
300
The smaller streams near the source which combine to form the river (NOT tributary).
What is headwaters?
300
A landform, usually triangular in shape, that forms at the mouth of a river where it empties into a larger body of water like an ocean or lake.
What is a delta?
300
On the outside bend of a twisting stream, a stream will erode the bank or deposit material, causing the stream to bend and twist in shape.
What is meander?
300
The portion of lighter/smaller sediment that is carried in the water column above the river bed by turbulence. It's made up of fine-grained particles, such as silt and clay, that move at roughly the same speed as the water. It is visible.
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What is the suspended load?
300
Permeable rock layer that freely transmits groundwater so that it becomes stored up in spaces between rocks or crevices or even in caverns.
What are aquifers?
400
A feature that influences a stream's velocity the most.
What is the gradient? (slope)
How steep is the hill?
400
Provides the water cycle with energy.
What is the sun?
400
The sorted material deposited by stream.
What is alluvium?
400
A raised river bank that results when a river deposits its load at the river's edge.
What is a natural levee?
400
Area under ground where groundwater is found.
What is the saturation zone?
500
A stream or river which flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
500
Occurs more over the ocean than on land in the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
500
A raised river bank that results when a river deposits its load at the river's edge..
What is a natural levee?
500
Label the following diagram with
A) where sediment is deposited &
B) where the most erosion occurs
500
Landscapes that are shaped largely by the dissolving power of groundwater, sometimes even resulting in a sinkhole.
What is KARST Topography?