Caves/Groundwater/Surface/Freshwater

Question 1

What is the cave with the deepest drop in the Continental United States?

Answer 1

Ellisons Cave

Question 2

What mineral is usually deposited in caves no longer filled with water?

Answer 2

Calcite and Gypsum

Question 3

How does karst form?

Answer 3

formed by the dissolution of limestone, dolomite, marble, or other soluble rock

Question 4

What is karst?

Answer 4

A land area with Sinkholes, Springs, Sinking Streams and Caves

Question 5

What are karst landforms?

Answer 5

The type of landforms where caves are found.

Question 6

How do karst landforms form?

Answer 6

Dissolve from slightly acidic groundwater

Question 7

What is alpine karst?

Answer 7

Is developed in mountain areas with a history of glaciation.

Question 8

What is karren?

Answer 8

Physical weathering exposing the beautiful rock surface

Question 9

What is a karst spring?

Answer 9

An underground stream that emerges from a cave

Question 10

What can be affected when drinking water and supplies are influenced by surface activity?

Answer 10

Pollution issues

Question 11

What is a sinkhole/sink?

Answer 11

A closed depression in the Earth’s surface
(One of the most obvious signs of karst terrain)

Question 12

How do sinkholes form?

Answer 12

The absence of certain surface materials

Question 13

What is a sinking stream?

Answer 13

Surface water becomes groundwater by streams sinking into the ground.

Question 14

What is a surface stream?

Answer 14

Water flows along the cave floor

Question 15

What is a spring?

Answer 15

Groundwater coming to the surface

Question 16

What is a sinkhole dump?

Answer 16

Rainwater flows through the sinkhole trash and into the groundwater.

Question 17

What is the percentage is saltwater on Earth?

Answer 17

97%

Question 18

What is surface water?

Answer 18

Water above Earth’s surface (Streams, Rivers, Lakes)

Question 19

What is groundwater?

Answer 19

Water drains through soil, filtering through underground rock

Question 20

What is the water table?

Answer 20

An underground boundary between the soil surface and the area where groundwater saturates spaces between sediments and cracks in rock.

Question 21

Aquifer

Answer 21

A body of permeable rock

Question 22

What is a stream?

Answer 22

A small narrow river

Question 23

What is a channel?

Answer 23

Is the path a stream follows.

Question 24

What is a tributary?

Answer 24

Is a smaller stream that feeds into a river

Question 25

What is a river system?

Answer 25

Is a network of streams and rivers

Question 26

What is a watershed?

Answer 26

Is the area of land that is drained by a river system.

Question 27

What is a divide?

Answer 27

Watersheds are separated from one another by a ridge

Question 28

What is a gradient?

Answer 28

Is a measure of the change in elevation over a certain distance.

Question 29

How does water move in Rivers and Streams?

Answer 29

The gradient

Question 30

What is a stream load?

Answer 30

Materials carried by a stream

Question 31

How does groundwater flow?

Answer 31

Groundwater goes down through Earth’s surface

Question 32

What is porosity?

Answer 32

Measure of Storage Space

Question 33

What is permeability?

Answer 33

Is how easily water can flow through an aquifer.

Question 34

What is recharge?

Answer 34

Surface water that goes down into the ground (Fill up)

Question 35

What is discharge?

Answer 35

Water that comes out of the cracks of the Earth and become spring (drain)

Question 36

What happens to groundwater?

Answer 36

Washing Clothes Bathing Dishes Water Lawns