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100
This is the deepest part of the seafloor
What is oceanic trenches?
100
Name two things that can increase the elevation of an area
What is shortening/compression, heating up/expansion, adding material on surface, adding material below
100
What is a cirque?
What is amphitheater like shape caused by glacier erosion
100
This is formed when a river meets the sea and slows down and deposits its load of sediments
What is a delta?
100
This term describes the amount of void space in a rock or soil
What is porosity
200
This part of the seafloor has the youngest oceanic crust
What is mid-ocean ridges?
200
The largest type of basin forms as a continental margin that is not a plate boundary
What is passive margin
200
What is a tarn?
What is a lake in a cirque
200
The amount of water flowing through a channel over a given amount of time is called
What is discharge
200
This term describes the ease of flow through a rock
What is permeability
300
This is the reason why the elevation of the seafloor decrease from the mid-ocean ridge to the abyssal plain
What is cooling and contracting
300
The principle that regional elevations adjust to the types and thicknesses of rocks at depth
What is isostasty?
300
What is an arete?
What is a thin ridge of rock formed by glaciers
300
The area of origin of a river is the:
What is headwater
300
The part of the subsurface where most of the pore spaces are filled with air is the
What is unsaturated zone
400
This is a popular model for the formation of an atoll
What is a volcanic island forms and subsides
400
This is the average thickness of the continental crust
What is 30-50 km
400
What happens on either side of the equilibrium line in a glacier?
What is above the equilibrium line, the amount of accumulation exceeds the amount lost by various processes
400
A depositional feature that has been deposited on the inside of a curve because of lower velocity is known as a
What is point bar
400
The term for groundwater that is confined and rises in a well because it is under pressure
What is artesian well
500
The area behind an island arc that develops a spreading center is a (an):
What is a back-arc basin
500
This type of basin includes the Denver Basin
What is foreland basin
500
What are Milankovitch cycles?
What is cycles that describing changes in Earth's wobble, axis of rotation, and eccentricity of orbit
500
The cross-sectional area of the channel of a stream or river is calculated by
What is multiplying the channel's width by its average depth
500
What happens to the water table if groundwater is pumped out faster than it can be replaced
What is a cone of depression forms on the water table