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Earth's Changing Surface Flashcards

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1
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What is water found in streams, rivers, and lakes?

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Surface Water

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What is water found in the spaces between rock particles?

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Groundwater

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3
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What is the upper surface of underground water?

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Water Table

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What is the path that a stream follows?

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Channel

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What a small stream that feeds into a river?

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Tributary

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What is an area of land that is drained by a river system?

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Watershed

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What is an area of higher ground that separates watersheds?

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Divide

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What is a body of rock or sediment that stores water under ground?

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Aquifer

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What is the measurement used to determine the amount of storage space in an aquifer?

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Porosity

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What is the measure of how easily water can flow through an aquifer?

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Permeability

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What is contamination that comes from a single, specific location?

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Point-Source Pollution

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12
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What is contamination that comes from different locations?

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Nonpoint-Source Pollution

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13
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What is contamination when water returned to rivers or streams is too warm?

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Thermal Pollution

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14
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What is water that is suitable to drink?

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Potable

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What is an area of water often collected behind a dam?

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Reservoir

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What is the measure of cloudiness of water?

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Turbidity

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What is the mechanical breakdown of rocks by the action of other rocks and sand particles?

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Abrasion

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What are changes in the composition and appearance of rocks by reactions with oxygen in the air and acids?

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Chemical Weathering

19
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What is the breakdown of rock material by physical and chemical processes?

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Weathering

20
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What is the process by which other chemicals combine with oxygen?

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Oxidation

21
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What is a process that breaks rock into smaller pieces?

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Physical Weathering

22
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What is the process that moves rocks and sediment?

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Erosion

23
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What is the process by which eroded material is dropped?

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Deposition

24
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What is a flat area of land formed by many layers of deposited?

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Floodplain

25
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What is a fan shaped area of land formed by many layers of sediment deposited into a body of water?

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Delta

26
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What is a fan shaped area of land formed by many layers of sediment deposited on dry land?

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Alluvial Fan

27
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What is the water located within the rocks below Earth’s surface?

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Groundwater

28
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What is the place where land and a body of water meet?

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Shoreline

29
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What is a coastal landform made of material deposited by waves and currents?

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Beach

30
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What are tiny grains of broken-down rock?

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Sediment

31
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What is made of mounds of wind-deposited sand?

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Dunes

32
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What is made of thick deposits of windblown, extremely fine-grained sediment?

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Loess

33
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What is a large mass of moving ice?

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Glacier

34
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What is all of the materials carried and deposited by a glacier?

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Glacial Drift

35
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What is the extremely slow movement of material downslope?

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Creep

36
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What is an ecosystem that covers a large area?

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Ecoregion

37
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What is a large, treeless area of land?

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Prairie

38
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What is a treeless, wetland ecosystem in which plants such as grasses grow?

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Marsh

39
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What is an area of land that has gentle slopes and small differences in elevation?

A

Plain

40
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What is a nearly level surface that is located in the lowest part of a desert basin?

A

Playa

41
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What is an ecosystem in which trees are the main form of plant life?

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Woodland

42
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What is a large, flat area that is higher than the surrounding land?

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Plateau

43
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What is a mountainous area of land in which evergreens are the main kind of plant life?

A

Montane

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