Where am I?
How did that get there?
Why are my shoes wet?
Very shifty!
Sloth-Like
100
This direction is the normal orientation of a map.
What is North?
100
This is the upper surface of the Zone of Saturation.
What is the water table?
100
This feature is found on the inside of a river turn where current is slower.
What is a point bar?
100
These are the three types of mass wasting movements.
What are falls, slides, and flows?
100
What are the two types of Glaciers?
Alpine and Continental
200
A line that connects points of equal elevation.
What is a Contour Line?
200
This property of an aquifer is the void space in bedrock or unconsolidated sediment filled with water and/or air.
Porosity
200
This river feature occurs on the outside of a turn where velocity is the fastest.
What is a cutbank?
200
What are the two types of materials involved in Mass Wasting Movements?
Regolith and Rocks
200
Which two zones determine a glacier's budget?
What are the zones of accumulation and zone of wastage?
300
The Principle Meridian runs in these general directions.
What is North - South?
300
This describes an aquifer sandwiched between two confining beds.
What is a Confined Aquifer?
300
This describes a river that has a 1% chance of flooding each year.
What is a 100-year flood?
300
These are the four triggers of mass wasting.
What is Rainfall, Snowmelt, Earthquakes, and Volcanic Eruptions?
300
Glacial Till deposited at the terminus of a glacier.
What is an End Moraine?
400
According to the PLSS, this is defined as a 36 square-mile of land.
What is a Township?
400
The slope between two points on a water table.
What is the Hydraulic Gradient?
400
The large grain sediment and rocks rolling, bouncing, sliding along the bottom of a stream.
What is Bedload?
400
A process during earthquakes where over-saturated sediment behaves like a liquid.
What is Liquifaction?
400
Snow condenses into this intermediate stage before becoming glacial ice.
What is firn?
500
The verbal scale "1 centimeter on the map represents 1 kilometer in real life" is derived from this fractional scale.
What is 1:100,000?
500
The porosity of an aquifer where 40ml of water saturates 200ml of sediment. (Vol. H20 / Vol. Sediment) x 100
What is the 20%?
500
The discharge of a river with a cross-sectional area of 20 square-meters and a velocity of 12 m/sec. (Velocity X Area = Discharge)
What is 240 cubic meters per second?
500
Mass wasting occurs when this force is greater than this other force.
What is driving force is greater than friction force?
500
The percentage of Earth's water that is trapped in glaciers.
What is 2%?
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