Rivers
Groundwater
Caves
Lakes and Wetlands
Vocabulary
100
The location in a straight river where water moves the fastest
What is the center?
100
The type of acid found in groundwater.
What is carbonic acid?
100
The type of rock that often forms caves.
What is limestone?
100
A depression in the ground that holds water.
What is a lake?
100
A curve or bend in a stream
What is a meander?
200
The triangular deposit that forms when a river enters an ocean.
What is a delta?
200
The type of spring that is warmer than the human body.
What is a hot spring?
200
The US state that has a lot of Karst topography.
What is Kentucky?
200
The three types of wetlands.
What is a bog, a marsh, and a swamp?
200
Water that flows downslope after precipitation occurs.
What is runoff?
300
Two reasons that people would want to live on a floodplain.
What is fertile soil, cheap land, being close to water?
300
The difference between zone of aeration and zone of saturation.
What is zone of aeration has air in its pore spaces, zone of saturation has water in its pore spaces.
300
The way dripstone columns form.
What is stalactites and stalagmites meet and cement together?
300
The characteristics of a swamp.
What is a filled-in marsh with trees and large shrubs?
300
The term is also known as a drainage basin.
What is a watershed?
400
The type of soil that is LEAST likely to absorb rainwater.
What is clay?
400
The type of contaminant that is NOT filtered by sediment.
What is chemical contaminants?
400
The difference between stalactites and stalagmites.
What is stalactites grow down from the ceiling, stalagmites grow up from the ground.
400
The difference between a bog and a marsh.
What is a bog gets its water from precipitation and has acidic soil whereas a marsh has lots of marsh grasses/wildlife and is located near the mouth of a stream?
400
The way sand is carried in a river.
What is in suspension?
500
The equation to calculate river discharge.
What is depth (m) x width (m) x velocity (m/s)?
500
Two ways that can lead to the lowering of the water table.
What is drought, pumping water from a well faster than it is recharged by precipitation/runoff?
500
The way that caves form, in detail.
What is groundwater contains carbonic acid which dissolves limestone deposits underground, leaving behind open spaces.
500
The steps that lead from nutrient run-off into a lake to the death of fish in the lake.
What is the additional nutrients cause eutrophication and algae blooms, covering the surface of the lake. The plants on the bottom of the lake are then shaded and die, which decreases the amount of oxygen. Decomposers eat the dead plants, which uses up even more oxygen. The fish die because there isn't enough oxygen in the water.
500
The definition of a stream's carrying capacity.
What is the maximum amount of sediment a stream can carry?
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