Rivers
Soil
Karst
Groundwater
Water Deposition
100
Features of a youthful river stage.
What are waterfalls, rapids, narrow V-shaped valleys, rocky bottoms?
100
The soil horizon that contains rock fragments, air, water and organic remains.
What is the topsoil (A-horizon)?
100
Form when carbonic acid in groundwater dissolves limestone leaving an opening in the rocks.
What is a cave (cavern)?
100
Water that soaks into the ground.
What is groundwater? (infiltration)
100
Fan-shaped deposit at the end of a river where it empties into a lake or ocean.
What is delta?
200
Any water that does not evaporate or infiltrate.
What is runoff?
200
Horizon of soil that contains little organic material and is mostly clay.
What is Subsoil (B-Horizon)?
200
A stream that flows directly into a cave system.
What is sinking (disappearing) stream?
200
Earth materials whose pore space is filled with water.
What is aquifer?
200
Fan-shaped deposit where a stream flows onto dry land.
What is alluvial fan?
300
A curved feature of mature or old streams that form when a meander is cut off during a flood stage and becomes silted up on the ends but filled with water.
What is an oxbow lake?
300
Unweathered parent material.
What is bedrock?
300
Cave features that hang from the ceiling of the cavern.
What are stalactites?
300
The top of the zone of saturation.
What is the water table?
300
The order sediments are deposited farther from the mouth of a river.
What is coarse, medium, fine?
400
The place in a river meander where erosion is most active.
What is the cut bank (outside of the meander's curve)?
400
Uses of soil.
What are: food, construction, beauty, waste disposal?
400
A funnel shaped depression created by the collapse of a cave.
What is a sinkhole?
400
Forms when a well is pumped, especially if it is pumped rapidly.
What is a cone of depression? (lowering of the water table)
400
Inside of a meander where deposition is occuring.
What is a point bar?
500
The type of material most visibly carried by a river in flood stage.
What is suspended load?
500
Soil that has space to allow water to flow through.
What is permeable soil? (aquifer)
500
Factories, cars, houses, septic leaks, and animals.
What are sources of pollution of a karst aquifer?
500
A system used to dispose of waste water from houses by filtering through the ground.
What is septic system?
500
The material being discharged by these rivers into the ocean in this satellite photo.
What is sediment (suspended load)?