Cycling Through
This is the combination of paths water takes through Earth's systems.
What is the water cycle or hydrologic cycle?
This is the main channel for a river system.
What is a trunk stream?
This is a relatively thin layer of rock, organic matter, and mineral fragment that cover most of Earth's surface.
What is soil?
This is the process of wearing or being worn by long exposure to the elements.
What is weathering?
This is a small rock pillar that has been cut off from the coast by wave erosion.
What is a sea stack?
A natural or artificial place where water is stored.
What is a reservoir?
This is a landform created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth.
What is a river delta?
These are layers within soil.
What are horizons?
This is the process of taking weathered sediment and transporting it elsewhere by wind, water, and glaciers.
What is erosion?
This is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.
What is calving?
A measure of how easy it is to force water to flow through a porous material.
What is permeability?
This is the boundary between adjacent drain basins.
What is a drainage divide?
This controls the properties of the soil.
What is soil texture?
This is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or landmass.
What is deposition?
This is the transportation of particles within the wind that is caused by turbulence.
What is suspension?
This is the exhalation of water vapor through the stomata of plants.
What is Transpiration?
These streams have high velocity water flow but low water discharge.
What are high gradient streams?
This is the practice of leveling of sections of a slope to reduce soil erosion.
What is terracing?
This is the wearing away of rock particle due to their collisions.
What is abrasion?
This is the maximum angle or slope that loose material can remain stable at.
What is the angle of repose?
These emit steam, that was once water trapped within rocks, into the atmosphere to form clouds.
What are volcanos?
This is the flat, low-lying valley floor that surround a river channel.
This occurred during the 1930's due to over farming, bad irrigation, and human error.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This is the process in which sediments move along a coastline in a zigzag pattern that is waves and currents.
What is longshore drift?
This is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials.
What is an aquifer?