Chapter 16 Test Notes

Question 1

A stream and all its tributaries is what?

Answer 1

stream system

Question 2

What is the origin of a stream?

Answer 2

source

Question 3

What is a stream that appears as a dotted line?

Answer 3

intermittent stream

Question 4

Overtime most lakes do what?

Answer 4

Shrink

Question 5

What contains the greatest amount of lakes surface water?

Answer 5

Glaciers

Question 6

Which is not a place where a lake can form?

Answer 6

D. It can form in all of these places

Question 7

When water in lakes is mixed what is it called?

Answer 7

thermal turnover

Question 8

What develops in canals of low-gradient streams?

Answer 8

meanders

Question 9

What is the lowest level at which streams can erode?

Answer 9

Base-level

Question 10

Smaller streams that feeds into larger streams are what?

Answer 10

tributaries

Question 11

What usually has rapids and waterfalls?

Answer 11

High-gradient streams

Question 12

What is the measure of the slope of a stream?

Answer 12

gradient

Question 13

What is produced by a cutoff of a stream?

Answer 13

Oxbow lakes

Question 14

(True or False)
The energy of a stream is directly related to its gradient

Answer 14

True

Question 15

(True or False)
Lakes can form when cave system collapse

Answer 15

True

Question 16

(True or False)
Order number of streams is based on drainage basin

Answer 16

False

Question 17

(True or False)
Oxbow lakes can exist in high-gradient streams

Answer 17

False

Question 18

What is the lowest point in which a stream flows?

Answer 18

Base level

Question 19

What is a ridge that separates one drainage basin from another?

Answer 19

Divide

Question 20

For rivers to pass by dams such as the Three Gorges Dam in China ships require what?

Answer 20

Locks and canals

Question 21

Large salty lakes evaporated due to climate change usually leave behind what?

Answer 21

Salt flats

Question 22

Study of earth’s surface water?

Answer 22

Limnology