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6.1 Running Water
6.2 Work of Streams
6.3 Groundwater
6.3 Groundwater
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The ultimate destination of all streams.
What is the ocean?
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The ultimate base level of any stream.
What is sea level or the ocean?
100
The zone near the surface filled with soil, air, and moist soil.
What is the zone of aeration?
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The features that form where the water table intersects the ground surface.
What is are springs?
100
The amount of stream water flowing past a certain point in a given unit of time.
What is discharge?
200
When surface water makes its way into underground rock and soil through cracks and pores.
What is infiltration?
200
The largest load for most streams.
What is suspended load?
200
The point where the zone of aeration meets the zone of saturation is called.
What is the water table?
200
The features that can form when groundwater is superheated to boiling temperatures.
What are geysers?
200
The river that has the larges drainage basin in North America.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
When plants lose water, through "sweating" and "breathing" to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
300
A depositional feature that forms when a stream enters an ocean and the sediments form new land.
What is a delta?
300
Groundwater is found here.
What is the zone of saturation
300
A well where the groundwater rises under it's own pressure.
What is an artesian well?
300
The fact that cities, with their large areas of impermeable concrete and asphalt, create worse floods than rural areas is called the _________ effect.
What is the urban or urban center effect
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The ability of a stream to erode and transport material depends mostly on this stream characteristic.
What is velocity?
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This increases directly with a stream's capacity.
What is a discharge?
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The percentage of total volume of rock or soil that consists of pore spaces.
What is porosity?
400
A depression that is produced in the water table when well water is over-pumped.
What is the cone of depression?
400
The gradient of a stream that originates 300 meters above sea level and travels 600 km to the ocean.
What is 0.5 m/km
500
The vertical drop of a stream channel over a certain distance. The slope or steepness of a stream.
What is gradient?
500
The flood control method where material is piled along the stream banks in an attempt to keep the stream's flow within it channel.
What are artificial levees?
500
A material's ability to transmit fluids through pore spaces.
What is permeability?
500
Caverns usually form in this type of rock and this type of acid.
What is limestone and carbonic acid?
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Name the largest geyser and the largest aquifer in the United States.
What is the Old Faithful Geyser and the Ogallala Aquifer?