Water Cycle
Rivers
Streams
Glaciers
Grab Bag
100
What process creates clouds in the atmosphere?
What is condensation
100
What is the largest river in North America?
What is the Mississippi River.
100
What is a feeder stream that flows into a main river?
What is a tributary.
100
What is the lowest point of snow accumulation?
What is the snowline?
100
How many stages does a river go through?
What is 3 stages
200
List three types of precipitation.
rain, snow, sleet, hail
200
Where is unsaturated soil found?
Within the 'Zone of Aeration'.
200
What is the amount of space between sediments?
What is porosity.
200
Bends or curves in river are referred to as what?
What are meanders.
200
What is water found in the zone of saturation referred to as?
What is groundwater.
300
The water cycle is powered by what?
What is the sun.
300
The steepness or slope of a stream is called what?
What is gradient.
300
What is it called where a river or stream begins?
What is headwater.
300
What causes glacial erosion to begin?
What is gravity?
300
Where is most of Earth's freshwater found?
What is within glaciers.
400
What is the movement of surface water into rock or soil through cracks and pore space?
What is Infiltration.
400
What type of river has waterfalls and rapids?
What is a youthful river.
400
What is formed on the side of streams to prevent flooding
What are levees.
400
What are ice packs that cover extremely large areas?
Continental Glaciers.
400
Where is snowfall increasing the mass of a glacier?
What is the 'Zone of Accumulation'
500
Water is balanced by __________ and _______________.
What is precipitation and evaporation.
500
List three things that help with flood control.
What is Limiting Development, Flood Control Dams, and Levees
500
What is found in an area with elevated regions of high ground, separating watersheds?
What is a divide.
500
What types of glaciers are found in highland mountains?
What is alpine glaciers.
500
What TWO things are required for a pumped well to bring water to Earth's surface?
What is pressure and energy.
M
e
n
u