Water Use and the Water Cycle
The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back is known as this.
What is the water cycle?
This is the sudden movement of rocks and soil down the side of a hill because of gravity and rain.
What is a landslide?
The small pieces that are broken off of rocks are referred to as this.
What are sediments?
What factors affect the speed of a river's flow?
Incline, width, and number of obstructions.
An area of land that is covered in water when a river overflows is known as this.
What is a floodplain?
Water that falls to the earth as rain, sleet, hail, or snow is known as this.
What is precipitation?
The process of moving weathered rock from one place to another.
Erosion
Name the particles of soil from biggest to smallest
Sand, silt, clay.
This word is used to describe how a river bends and changes direction.
What is meander?
Where a river meets the ocean forms this.
What is an estuary?
How much of the earth's water is freshwater?
3%
What is a factor that affects soil erosion?
This is the term for a growing pile of deposited sediment at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Which of the following is not a type of freshwater wetland?
Bog, Swamp, Marsh, or Estuary
Estuary (mix of saltwater and freshwater)
What amount of earth's water is actually available for us to use?
1% (1/3 of all freshwater)
Which horizon is rich in BOTH minerals and nutrients?
A Horizon
This term defines the amount of sediment that a river carries.
This type of wetland has woody plants like trees and shrubs.
What is a swamp?
Plants releasing moisture to the atmosphere is known as this.
What is transpiration?
Name a way that humans can stabilize a mountainside?
Retaining walls, drainage, explosives, or grading the slope.
FINAL JEOPARDY:
What type of soil contains 30% clay, 10% sand, and 60% silt?
Silty Clay Loam
A flowing river is carrying sediment. As it slows down, what process starts to occur?
Deposition
Why are wetlands ecologically important?
They provide filtering of pollutants, they help prevent flooding, and they provide habitat to many organisms.