Exam 3

Question 0

In the weathering process of pressure release fracturing

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Bedrock expands and fractured when the overlying rock erodes away

Question 1

Wind, flowing water, glaciers, and gravity are agents of

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Erosion

Question 2

Piles of rock debris found at the base of cliffs in high alpine areas are likely the result of

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Frost wedging

Question 3

In the process of hydrolysis

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Minerals weather by incorporating water

Question 4

Soil is a mixture of

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Mineral grains, organic matter, gas, water

Question 5

A flowing mixture of clay, silt, sand, and rock in which more than half of the particles are larger Han sans is called

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Debris flow

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A type of mass wasting in which a segment of bedrock moves downslope along a fracture is called

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Rockslide

Question 7

What proportion of the earths surface water is fresh water

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2.5%

Question 8

Most of the surface fresh water is contained in

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Ice sheets and glaciers

Question 9

Stream, -, discharge, and channel shape determine the velocity of a stream

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Gradient

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A streams erosional strength is

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Greatest in a fast flowing stream

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Boulders and cobbles are carried by a stream as

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Bed load

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The water on the outside of a stream curve moves

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Faster than the water on the inside, thus enforcing meandering of the stream

Question 13

If a stream cuts through the narrow neck of land separating two meanders, the abandoned meander loops may become isolated to form an

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Oxbow lake

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When a stream has a greater supply of sediment than it can carry

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It forms a braided stream

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The top of a waterfall is a

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Temporary or local base level

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The region from which all the water flows into a river is its

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Drainage basin

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High gradient streams are likely to form

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Vshaped valleys

Question 18

A - is the large scale feature built up of sediment deposited where a steam enters the ocean

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Delta

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During a flood, a stream overflows its banks and water covers the adjacent -.

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Flood plain

Question 20

A nutrient rich lake is called

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Eutrophic lake

Question 21

Turnovers in lakes situated in temperate climates typically occur in

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Spring and fall

Question 22

• is the proportional volume of to k or soil that consists of open spaces.

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Porosity

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The region of the crust above the water table that is most, but unsaturated

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Zone of aeration

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In a typical aquifer, ground water flows at

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A few cm per day

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Caverns usually form in

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Limestone

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Any process that uses water then returns it to earth far from its source is

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Consumption

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Domestic water use accounts for - % of all water used in the US

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10

Question 28

• in ground water forms near the well where water is withdrawn after than it can flow

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Cone of depression

Question 29

If too much fresh water is pumped out of a coastal aquifer

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Saltwater intrusion can occur

Question 30

An example of non-point source pollution is

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Fertilizer over a field

Question 31

Which is w most logical sequence of steps in identifying and treating a contaminated aquifer?

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Discovery, elimination, monitoring, modeling, remediation.

Question 32

Rounded ice grains called firm form

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If snow survives through 1 summer

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Alpine glaciers occur

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Near mountaintops at high elevations on all continents

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During basal sliding a glacier moves

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On a thin film of water

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• separates the zone of accumulation from the zone of ablation.

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Snow line

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Sea ice forms

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When surface ocean water freezes

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Glacial - form as rocks are dragged along at the base of a glacier

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Striations

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A smaller glacial valley that meets the main valley with a large vertical offset is called a

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Hanging valley

Question 39

• is sediment that was dirt transported by a glacier and then transported and deposited by a stream

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Stratified drift