Glacial Formation and Movement
This formation has a U in it, and can be 10 miles long.
What is U shaped valley
This type of rock is made from lava/magma, and has a hardness scale 6-7; examples include basalt and granite
What is igneous rocks
The starting point of a river.
What is the source or headwaters.
The process of when sediment and rocks are dropped onto different landforms.
What is deposition
Huge storehouses of water underground.
What is an aquifer
The largest ice sheet in the U.S during the last glacial period.
What is the Laurentide ice sheet
Different minerals have different hardness; this can be measured using something called...
What is a Mohs Hardness Scale
Water that flows through rivers originates from...
What is precipitation, rain, groundwater etc
True or False: Faster-moving water can carry more and larger sediment, so deposition is more likely to occur where the water slows down.
True
A good aquifer needs both blank porosity and blank permeability to allow water to flow easily.
What is high and high
The movement of glaciers is controlled by their...
What is environment
Rocks/Minerals weather at different rates depending on composition, this is called...
What is Differential Weathering
A lake that is curved like and is formed when a river or stream cuts off a meander of a river.
What is an oxbow lake
A waterfall starts to form when water does what process with softer rock?
What is the process of erosion
To find permeability (k) of an aquifer, we need to use a formula known as whose law?
What is Darcy's law
If the Thwaites glacier fully breaks off, sea levels would rise how many feet?
What is 2 feet
What is rock composition, climate and surface area
A river system can be broken down into three zones, which include...
What is zone of sediment, transportation and deposition
Rivers become their shape because the flowing water wears away the land and moves what around?
What is sediment, rock and dirt.
Fracking sometimes causes what gas to leak into groundwater and ignite?
What is methane gas
This formation has a green oval-shaped hill made of glacial sediment.
What is drumlin
Water can break down and chemically react with rocks leading to rock composition; these are the processes known as...
What is physical and chemical weathering
This drainage pattern is the most common in the world and has branches that stick out like a tree.
What is dendritic patterns
Erosion is more likely to happen on the blank of a meander.
What is outside
Five physical characteristics of groundwater?
What is turbidity, color, ph, odor and taste