Ground Water
What is infiltration?
Water entering the ground
What type of rock forms karst topography?
Limestone
Water changing from a liquid to gas
Evaporation
What is a watershed?
Land draining into a water system
What is a floodplain
Flat land next to a river
What is the water table?
Top of the zone of saturation
What is a sinkhole?
Collapse of ground due to underground dissolution
Gas to liquid?
Condensation
What is a divide?
Boundary between watersheds
What are meanders?
Curves in a stream
What is permeability?
Ability of a material to let water pass through
What is an artesian well?
Well that flows without a pump
Water falling to Earth?
Precipitation
What is a stream load?
All materials carried by a stream
Where do deltas form?
Where rivers enter large bodies of water
Why does groundwater move slowly?
It moves through small pore spaces
What causes ground water to become slightly acidic?
Carbon dioxide forming carbonic acid
Water flowing over land?
Runoff
Why can fast streams carry larger particles?
Higher energy/ velocity
What causes alluvial fan?
Sudden decrease in velocity
Explain the difference between porosity and permeability
Porosity=space
Permeability= flow ability
Difference between a spring and a geyser?
spring= normal discharge
geyser= heated/ pressurized
Process plants release water vapor?
Transpiration
Why are stream rocks smooth?
Abrasion
Why do people live near flood plains?
Fertile soil!!