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Rivers
Watershed
Groundwater
Wells and Springs
Minerals in Groundwater and glaciers
100
The tributaries that combine with other streams and rivers.
What is the River System?
100
The process of lengthening of a stream
What is headward erosion or meandering
100
A barrier that prevents water from going further into the ground.
What is impermeable layer
100
A spring formed in between two impermeable layer of rock.
What is an Artesian Well
100
Water going through bedrock leaves
What is mineral deposits
200
The primary method of transporting pebbles on the bottom of the stream bed.
What is Bedload?
200
The two highland areas that divide a watershed
What is Divide
200
Boundary between the zone of aeration and zone of saturation
What is capillary fringe
200
A hot spring that intermittently shoots columns of hot water and steam.
What is a geyser
200
Calcium deposits come from water and
What is Limestone
300
The total load of sediment a stream can carry in its water and bed.
What is capacity
300
During a flood a river carries sediment as suspended material where does it get deposited.
In the floodplain
300
Water removal from the aquifer would be considered.
What is usage
300
The area where water is filtered through to the zone of saturation
What is zone or aeration
300
Dissolved minerals create what two cave formations
What are stalagmites and stalactites
400
Total load of sediment carried by a stream in it water and stream bed
What is Capacity
400
A river that goes over its banks deposits what material
What is silt and clay
400
Water running through material with large uniformed pebbles is high porosity, what is this called.
What is high permeability
400
The rainfall is greater than the need
What is surplus
400
Glaciers move what material
What is clay, silt, pebbles or till
500
The material deposited at the end of the stream or river where it slows down
What is Deposition
500
A stream channel keeps what material within it banks.
What is sand and pebbles
500
Water that can come out of rock below the water table.
What is a spring or artesian spring
500
Oil on the ground can can cause pollution in.
What is Surface water and Groundwater
500
What is till call after it is piled up by a glacier
Moraine