SCIENCE WATER 2(November)

Question 1

Slope of a stream channel expressed as the vertical drop of stream over a specified distance

Answer 1

Gradient

Question 2

The shape, size and roughness of the channel affect the amount of friction

Answer 2

Channel Characteristic

Question 3

Volume of water flowing past a certain point in a given unit of time

Answer 3

Discharge

Question 4

The other body of water’s steep fall over a rocky ledge into a plunge pool below

Answer 4

Waterfall

Question 5

There’s a great volume of water

Answer 5

Cataracts

Question 6

If there’s a small volume of water

Answer 6

Cascade

Question 7

-Entire river system
-an area drained by a river and it’s tributaries
-also called as “drainage basin”

Answer 7

Watershed

Question 8

Collected in the space between sediments and the cracks within the rock

Answer 8

Ground water

Question 9

Portions of the lithosphere in which the pore spaces are filled with water

Answer 9

Zone of saturation

Question 10

It is an underground boundary between the soil surface and the area

Answer 10

Water table

Question 11

Water soaks into the ground

Answer 11

Porosity

Question 12

It contains countless voids or openings called___

Answer 12

Pore spaces

Question 13

It is the percentage of the total volume of rock or sediments that consists of pore spaces

Answer 13

Porosity

Question 14

Ability of a material to transmit fluids

Answer 14

Permeability

Question 15

Ground water moves by twisting or turning

Answer 15

Permeability

Question 16

The smaller the pore spaces, the slower it moves

Answer 16

Permeability

Question 17

Permeable later or sendiments that transmit

Answer 17

Aquifers

Question 18

Impermeable layers that hinder or prevent water movement like clay

Answer 18

Aquitards

Question 19

It has a high porosity but poor permeability due to very small pores opening

Answer 19

Clay

Question 20

A hole in the ground that forms when water dissolves the surface rock

Answer 20

Sinkhole

Question 21

Body of water that is surrounded by land

Answer 21

Lake

Question 22

Continuous rainfall will cause too much depression and stress in the land area

Answer 22

Lake

Question 23

It can be man-made or natural-made

Answer 23

Lake

Question 24

Common lake in the Philippines

Answer 24

Taal lake
Lanao lake

Question 25

-bounded by Russia,
Azerbaijan, Iran,
Turkmenistan and
Kazakhstan

-371,000 kilometer
squared

Answer 25

Caspian lake

Question 26

-bounded by Canada
and United States

-84,414 kilometer
squared

Answer 26

Lake superior

Question 27

-bounded by Uganda,
Kenya and Tanzania

-69,485 kilometers
squared

Answer 27

Lake Victoria

Question 28

-comprises the easterly
portion of Lake
Michigan-Huron

-59,600 kilometers
squared

Answer 28

Lake huron

Question 29

-United States

-58,000 kilometers
squared

Answer 29

Michigan

Question 30

It is an area of land permanently
saturated, or filled, with water.

Answer 30

Swamps

Question 31

They are related to lakes depending on the
presence of water especially during the seasons
in the country

Answer 31

Swamps

Question 32

They are covered with vegetation, not just
plants are living in this area but also with some
species of animals such as reptiles, amphibians
and insects.

Answer 32

Swamps

Question 33

Boundary between Israel and jordan

Answer 33

Dead sea

Question 34

It is the lowest body of water on earth’s surface.

Answer 34

Dead sea

Question 35

Salt content of dead sea

Answer 35

0.25% or 25%