flow of fresh water and forces of Erosion

Question 1

What is erosion

Answer 1

Transports matirial from one location for another

Question 2

What is the water cycle

Answer 2

Continuis movment of water

Question 3

What is a tributary

Answer 3

Stream that flows into a lake or larger stream

Question 4

What is watershed

Answer 4

Area of land drained by river system

Question 5

Give an example of watershed

Answer 5

Mississippi river watershed

Question 6

How is watershed and tributary related

Answer 6

They both drain into something

Question 7

What is a Continental Divide

Answer 7

Area of high ground that separates watersheds

Question 8

What is deposition

Answer 8

Process in witch material is laid down

Question 9

what is a delta

Answer 9

Fan-shaped mass of material depostited at the mouth of a stream

Question 10

What is a flood plain

Answer 10

Forms when sediments deposited by river overflows its banks

Question 11

what is a water table

Answer 11

Upper surface of underground water

Question 12

Why would you need to know the water table

Answer 12

When your digging a well

Question 13

what are underwater caves formed by

Answer 13

Erosion and deposition

Question 14

How does a septic tank work

Answer 14

Seaparates solid from liqiud waste and that has bacteria that breaks down the solid waste

Question 15

What causes waves

Answer 15

ripples on the water that are caused by wind,earthquakes, or volcanos

Question 16

What are wave trains

Answer 16

groups of waves that curl and break once they get to shore

Question 17

How are sandy beaches formed

Answer 17

The constant pounding of the waves agensed rock

Question 18

Sea stack?

Answer 18

Offshore clumps of rock that used to be connected to mainland

Question 19

Sea arch?

Answer 19

Wave action cuts completly through rock

Question 20

Sea cave?

Answer 20

Waves cut large hole into fractured or weak rock along the base of cliffs

Question 21

Headland?

Answer 21

Cliffs made of hard rock erode more slowly than surrounding rock

Question 22

wave-cut terraces?

Answer 22

Sea cliff worn back creating platform

Question 23

Beach?

Answer 23

Shoreline made of material deposited by waves

Question 24

Glaciers?

Answer 24

Enormus mass of moving ice

Question 25

Alpine glacier

Answer 25

Form in mountianus areas

Question 26

Continental glacier

Answer 26

Spread across entire continants

Question 27

Glacial drift

Answer 27

Rock material is carried and deposited by glaciers

Question 28

What are the two types of glacial drift?

Answer 28

Till/ Stratified

Question 29

Till drift

Answer 29

Unsorted rock depostied by glacier

Question 30

Stratified drift

Answer 30

Glacial deposit is sorted into layers based on the size of the rock

Question 31

Desertification

Answer 31

The spreading of a dessert

Question 32

Where has desertification happened in the past

Answer 32

United states/ “dust bowl”

Question 33

Where is desertification happening now

Answer 33

Africa,china, india , middle east

Question 34

What factor contributes to desertification

Answer 34

Drought/Poor farming/Cattle/ Collecting wood

Question 35

How can desertification problems be solved

Answer 35

Planting vegitation/sand fences/limiting cattle grazing/Spreading oils/Irrigation

Question 36

Where is a continental divide located

Answer 36

Wyoming