Water Cycle
What process in the water cycle happens when water vapor rises in the atmosphere, it expands and cools
What is condensation
What are the 3 stages of a river?
What is young, mature, and old
What is the percentage of open space in a given volume of rock?
What is porosity
What is CO2
What is floodplain
What is the combination of evaporation and transpiration called?
What is evapotranspiration
What is it called when a stream flows out of a mountain range onto flat land and deposits its sediments?
What is alluvial fan
What is a natural flow of groundwater that has reached the surface?
What is spring
What are two features formed by deposition that are often found in caves?
Any body of water through which water can flow and which can store enough water for domestic or industrial use.
What is aquifer
Which process in the water cycle happens when water falls from clouds to earths surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation
What are the 3 types of stream loads?
What is suspended, bed, and dissolved
What is the ease of which water can pass through a rock called?
What is permeability
Caves are formed by erosion from what kind of water?
What is groundwater
A streams ability to erode depends mainly on what?
What is speed
Which process of the water cycle happens when plants give off water vapor into atmosphere
What is transpiration
What are 2 common features of fast-moving streams in mountainous areas? (think young)
What is waterfalls and rapids
The slope of a water table is called what?
Hot springs that form in areas of recent volcanic activity may become what?
What is mudpot
What is delta
What is the definition of the water cycle? Be specific.
What is the movement of water among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and underground
How does a river system begin?
Explain how a rock can be porous but impermeable.
What is the rock has no connected open spaces
What is the regions where the results of chemical weathering by groundwater are clearly visible called?
What is karst topography
The underground layer of rock where all of the open spaces are filled with water.
What is the zone of saturation