Lecture 8

Question 1

What is condensation?

Answer 1

Water changes from gas to liquid or solid.

Question 2

What is precipitation?

Answer 2

Water that falls from the atmosphere (liquid or solid).

Question 3

What are the 3 paths water has once it reaches the surface?

Answer 3

Evaporation-transpiration, infiltration, runoff.

Question 4

Fill in the blank. You can:
Step over a 1
Jump over a 2
Wade across a 3
Swim across a 4

Answer 4

1. Brook
2. Creek
3. Stream
4. River

Question 5

What are the 5 drainage patterns?

Answer 5

Dendritic, trellis, radial, rectangular, deranged.

Question 6

does laminar or turbulent flow have a higher erosion rate?

Answer 6

Turbulent

Question 7

What is the thalweg?

Answer 7

The part of the stream with the highest velocity.

Question 8

What are the 3 types of transport in fluvial (river) systems?

Answer 8

Bedload, suspended load, dissolved load

Question 9

what’s a delta

Answer 9

steam flows into standing water where it deposits sediment

Question 10

what’s a fan

Answer 10

stream flows down hill to flatter surface where it deposits sediment

Question 11

How to rivers grow

Answer 11

mass wasting and headward erosion