Rivers
Triangular feature sometimes formed at the mouth of a river
What is a delta.
As the river starts high in the mountains the water cuts the valley deeper.
What is a V-shaped valley.
Which of the following does not contribute to acid rain?
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Decaying Vegetation
Burning Fossil Fuels
What are earthquakes?
Formed by acid in rain water over millions of years.
What is a cave?
This river flows through Columbus, Circleville, Chillicothe, and Portsmouth before emptying into the Ohio River.
What is the Scioto River
The smallest form of water movement, we see in our local fields.
What are rills or gullies?
The river channel flows through easily eroded sediment forming large curves.
What are meanders?
The most powerful agent of weathering and erosion is...
A deposit that hangs from the ceiling of a cave.
What is a stalactite?
This river's small creek tributaries, Clearcreek being one of them, are throughout Fairfield county. It's source is located near Rock Mill.
What is the Hocking River.
Forms when part of the river is cut off from the main channel.
What is an oxbow lake?
Rivers receive water and more sediment from a smaller river or streams?
What is the driving force of all water movement?
What is gravity?
When the deposits of a stalactite hit the ground and eventually over time reaches the ceiling as one large unit.
What is a cave column?
This river that's source is in Rocky Mountain National Park makes a "Grand" entrance in Arizona.
What is the Colorado River.
What part of a meander would have more erosion and why?
A. Inside of curve, water is slower
B. Outside of curve, water is slower
C. Inside of curve, water is faster
D. Outside of curve, water is faster
D. outside of curve, water is faster
Forms where the river's power of erosion widens it's valley during brief spurts instead of deepening it.
What is a flood plain?
When rock is physically broken into smaller pieces?
What is Mechanical Weathering?
The process which groundwater causes erosion in caves.
What is chemical weathering?
This river has the largest drainage basin in North America.
What is the Mississippi River.
Which is true?
A. All rivers have a mouth
B. All rivers have a delta
C. All major rivers have a delta but not a mouth
D. If a river has a mouth, it must have a delta
E. Rivers that flow into an ocean with waves must have a delta
A. All rivers have a mouth
Forms when the water flow passes over harder rocks and has a elevation change.
What is a waterfall?
What are alluvial fans?
Syndrome that is killing bats in the eastern United States.
What is white-nose syndrome?
Do to it's meanders construction companies are having a tough time constructing a wall on this river that makes up the United States southern boarder.
What is the Rio Grande River.