Earth's Changing Surface

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Surface Water

Question 2

What is water found in the spaces between rock particles?

Answer 2

Groundwater

Question 3

What is the upper surface of underground water?

Answer 3

Water Table

Question 4

What is the path that a stream follows?

Answer 4

Channel

Question 5

What a small stream that feeds into a river?

Answer 5

Tributary

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Watershed

Question 7

What is an area of higher ground that separates watersheds?

Answer 7

Divide

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Aquifer

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Porosity

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Permeability

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Point-Source Pollution

Question 12

What is contamination that comes from different locations?

Answer 12

Nonpoint-Source Pollution

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Thermal Pollution

Question 14

What is water that is suitable to drink?

Answer 14

Potable

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Reservoir

Question 16

What is the measure of cloudiness of water?

Answer 16

Turbidity

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Abrasion

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Chemical Weathering

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Weathering

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Oxidation

Question 21

What is a process that breaks rock into smaller pieces?

Answer 21

Physical Weathering

Question 22

What is the process that moves rocks and sediment?

Answer 22

Erosion

Question 23

What is the process by which eroded material is dropped?

Answer 23

Deposition

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Floodplain

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Delta

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Alluvial Fan

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Groundwater

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Shoreline

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Beach

Question 30

What are tiny grains of broken-down rock?

Answer 30

Sediment

Question 31

What is made of mounds of wind-deposited sand?

Answer 31

Dunes

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Loess

Question 33

What is a large mass of moving ice?

Answer 33

Glacier

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Glacial Drift

Question 35

What is the extremely slow movement of material downslope?

Answer 35

Creep

Question 36

What is an ecosystem that covers a large area?

Answer 36

Ecoregion

Question 37

What is a large, treeless area of land?

Answer 37

Prairie

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Marsh

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Plain

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Playa

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Woodland

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Plateau

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Montane