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Water Cycle
Streams
Floods/Erosion
Rivers / Channels
Riddles
100
The constant movement of water among the oceans, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere
What is The Water Cycle?
100
The maximum amount of solid load a stream can carry
What is Stream Capacity?
100
The flat, low-lying portion of a stream valley subject to periodic flooding
What is Floodplain?
100
An imaginary line that separates the drainage of two streams; often found along a ridge.
What is Divide?
100
What is so delicate, that saying its name breaks it?
What is Silence?
200
Takes place when rock is broken down by water, Ice, or windblown sand
What is Physical Weathering
200
The speed of water in a stream
What is Stream Velocity?
200
The detachment and removal of soil by water
What is Water Erosion?
200
A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.
What is Channel?
200
What did the chameleon that couldn't change color suffer from?
What is a reptile dysfunction?
300
The process by which rocks break down as a result of chemical reactions
What is Chemical Weathering?
300
Materials bounced along the stream bottom
What is The Bed Load?
300
Name the three main causes of water erosion
What is water, wind and ice?
300
A wall to prevent the sea eroding a land area
What is Seawall?
300
What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in one thousand years?
What is the letter M?
400
The main agent of chemical weathering.
What is Water?
400
Materials carried as dissolved solids in stream water
What is The Dissolved Load?
400
Large,wide channels carved by running water. A gully is large enough that it cannot be smoothed out with conventional tillage equipment
What is Gully Erosion?
400
Name a sign of river erosion
What is Deterioration of river bank?
400
I have seas with no water, coasts with no sand, towns without people, mountains without land. What am I?
What is a Map?
500
Flow of excess storm or melt water flows over the earth’s surface.
What is Surface Runoff?
500
Materials carried in suspension in stream water
What is The Suspended Load?
500
Name one sign erosion is taking place
What is muddy water?
500
Erosion at the origin of the river/channel/stream which causes the body of water to increase in length
What is Headward Erosion?
500
Often will I spin a tale, never will I charge a fee. I'll amuse you for an entire eve, but alas, you won't remember me. What am I?
What is a Dream?