Hydrologic Cycle
The process by which water that is captured by plants and roots and then released back into the atmosphere by the leaves.
What is transpiration?
Icicle-like dripstone features hanging from a cavern's ceiling
What are stalactites?
Groundwater provides up to this much of the drinking water supply in the United States.
What is half.
Streams with loop like bends.
What are meanders?
The land area that contributes water to a stream is called this.
What is a drainage basin?
The continuous circulation of Earth's water supply, characterized by the movement of water between the oceans, the atmosphere and the continents.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The Clark family traveled to Malaga, Spain in 2016, and visited these caves.
What is the Nerja caves home of the largest stalactite in the world.
A layer of rock or sediments that allows the movement of groundwater.
What are aquifers?
An accumulation of sediments formed where a stream enters a lake or ocean.
What is a delta?
Areas with flat-lying or uniform rocks these types of stream drainage patterns occur.
What is dendritic?
The process in which water seeps into the soil or rock through cracks and pore spaces.
What is infiltration?
Features that grow up from a cavern floor due to dripping from above.
What are stalagmites?
Water that occupies all the pore spaces in the soil material rather than air. A total water saturation zone.
What is groundwater?
This process causes the oxbow lake to form.
What is erosion?
A smaller stream that enters a larger stream.
What is a tributary?
Water that doesn't infiltrate, evaporate or transpire becomes this.
What is runoff?
A cavern located at a shallow depth may collapse resulting in this.
What is a sinkhole?
This is why many small streams continue to flow even in dry seasons.
What is groundwater also supplies water for the rivers not just rainfall and snowmelt.
When a stream exits a narrow mountain canyon and flows out onto a plain or valley the sediments are deposited creating this feature.
What is an alluvial fan?
A stream drainage pattern on a landscape dominated by a central high point.
What is a radial drainage pattern?
The fate of almost all water in the hydrologic cycle
What is return to the ocean?
Caverns are formed in this way.
What is acidic groundwater dissolving limestone beneath earth's surface.
A hole dug or drilled into an aquifer for the purpose of supplying water.
What is a well?
The flat area in a stream valley that is subject to occasional flooding.
What is a floodplain?
A streams velocity depends on these three factors.
What is the stream's gradient, the size and shape of its channel, and its discharge?