Fluvial Landforms Etc

Question 1

An area of land from which a stream gets all of its water supply

Answer 1

Drainage Basin

Question 2

Three types of drainage basin

Answer 2

Radial, trellis, dendritic

Question 3

Drainage pattern that has treats meeting at 90 degrees - created by layers of hard and soft rock

Answer 3

Trellis

Question 4

A spike like drainage pattern. Flows away from the summit of some of volcano in all directions

Answer 4

Radial

Question 5

A drainage pattern created along uniform layers of rock hardness

Answer 5

Dendritic

Question 6

During a flood a stream overflows it’s banks. The land adjacent to a stream created by overflow is called a

Answer 6

Floodplain

Question 7

Stream_______ are the sloping eyes of a river channel

Answer 7

Gradient

Question 8

In a meandering river. The erosion takes place along the ________ while deposition takes place along the _______.

Answer 8

Cutbanks, banks

Question 9

These three factors control stream flow / velocity

Answer 9

Channel shape , bed-traction, and discharge

Question 10

Streams erode soils and rock material in these four different ways

Answer 10

Solution, abrasion, hydraulic action and attrition

Question 11

Three types of stream loads (eroded material )

Answer 11

Solution , suspension, and bed load

Question 12

All sedimentary material deposited by streams is called

Answer 12

Alluvium

Question 13

A ____ is formed when a stream flows into the ocean and deposits it’s load forming new lands

Answer 13

Delta

Question 14

Inverted cone delf

Answer 14

Arcuate

Question 15

Delta that looks like a tooth

Answer 15

Cuspate

Question 16

Deltas that look like an estuary

Answer 16

Estuarine

Question 17

Deltas that have many distributaries cut through river deposits

Answer 17

Birds foot

Question 18

Solution load :

Answer 18

Contains dissolved particles and ions and minerals

Question 19

Suspended load

Answer 19

Consist of fine slits and clays carried in the middle of stream channel

Question 20

Bed load

Answer 20

Consists of gravel and couplers that are transported at the bottom of a stream channel because of their weight

Question 21

A stream flows scrim a steep mountain front into a flat plain and it loses its velocity and deposits material in fan shape

Answer 21

Alluvial fan

Question 22

A human activity that benefits from a stream flooding and the deposition of rich sediments

Answer 22

Agriculture

Question 23

What is a abrasion

Answer 23

A material being transported wears away at surface over time

Question 24

What is attrition

Answer 24

Rocks and pebbles are carried in flow of river and repeatedly knock into eachother, causes rocks to break and only get smaller

Question 25

What is hydraulic action

Answer 25

A force of water crashing material to be dislodged and carried away by the sea .

Question 26

Solution

Answer 26

Solids dissolving in a liquid