Water Cycle
The three main processes of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
The boundary between the Zone of Aeration and the Zone of Saturation
What is the water table
The draining pattern which is "tree-like"
What is dendritic
The surface of the Earth is changed by three main processes
What is weathering, erosion, and deposition
The transportation or movement of weathered materials
What is erosion
The four forms of Precipitation
What is rain, snow, sleet, and hail
The four groundwater features
What is aquifers, artesian wells, wells, and springs
A body of running water confined to a channel, that runs downhill
What is rivers and streams
The physical breakdown of rock
What is mechanical weathering
The rate of weathering depends on these four things
What is time, climate, mineral composition, and surface area
The state of the water in the condensation stage
What is liquid
The features of a cavern
What is stalactite, stalagmite, and column
A flat valley floor composed of sediment deposited by a stream
What is a floodplain
This process is where wind and water carrying small sediment particles slowly weather away rocks
What is abrasion
The settling or putting down of eroded materials
What is deposition
The two processes of the water cycle that are lesser known
What is transpiration and runoff and infiltration
The three main watersheds of Virginia
What is Gulf of Mexico, Carolina Sounds, and Chesapeake Bay
Ridges of sediment deposited in the middle of a stream
What is bar
The process when minerals in a rock react with water by dissolving
What is hydrolysis
The four types of chemical weathering
What is hydrolysis, carbonation, oxidation, and organic
The other name for the water cycle
What is the hydrologic cycle
The five depositional features
What is oxbow lake, bars, floodplains, delta, and alluvial fan
Body of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river when velocity decreases
What is delta
The breaking of rock in thin sheets as a result of a change in pressure or temperature
What is exfoliation
A major agent of erosion
What is running water