The Water Cycle
Water that seeps through the soil and dirt.
What is ground water?
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
A smaller stream that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
The low place between hills and mountains.
What is a valley?
The difference between lentic and lotic water systems.
Lentic is a still water system and lotic is a flowing water system.
The water from precipitation running down a slanted surface of land.
What is surface runoff?
Mountains and other surface features of land.
What are landforms?
The course along which water moves.
What is a stream channel?
The highest landform on Earth that has a pointed top and steep sides.
What is a mountain?
The speed at which a stream flows.
What is velocity?
The process of water vapor turning into water droplets that form clouds.
What is condensation?
The process by which weathered rock is picked up and moved to a new place.
What is erosion?
The point at which water from a river stream empties into another body of water.
What is a mouth?
What is an area of flat or almost flat land called?
What is a plain?
A stream that runs on a steep slope will carry more or less sediment?
What is more sediment?
What is evaporation?
All of the following are forces that change landforms EXCEPT: a. wind b. moving water c. glaciers c. physical features
What are physical features?
The point at which two or more streams meet.
What is confluence?
A landform of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
A crescent-shaped lake lying alongside a winding river
What is an oxbow lake?
The evaporation of moisture from trees and plants.
What is transpiration?
The difference between physical and chemical weathering is: A. Physical weathering just breaks things apart and chemical weathering changes the rocks forever. B. Physical weathering breaks things apart and chemical weathering burns rocks with chemicals.
What is A?
The original point from which the river flows.
What is the source?
A raised area of land with a flat top.
What is a plateau?
It is 45% inorganic material, 25% water, 25% air, and 5% organic material.
What are soil components?