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Test One Flashcards

0
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Therefore blank must equal blank

A

Evaporation must equal precipitation

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We must have a balanced in the what cycle to ensure fresh what for consumption

A

Water Water

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2
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The water cycle is powered by energy from the

A

Sun

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Once precipitation hits the ground it then becomes blank water blank Or blank water

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Running water, groundwater, or surface water

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Blank has the most influence on the way blank makes its way to the blank because water naturally flows blank

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Gravity, water, oceans, downhill.

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What is the movement of surface water into rocks or soil through cracks and poor spaces

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Infiltration

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6
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The ability of a stream to blank and transport materials depends largely on its what

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Erode, velocity

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Blank refers to how fast the water travels over time and is influenced by the blank, size and how rough the blank is it’s just charge and the blank

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Velocity, shape, channel, gradient

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The blank of a stream is the amount of change in the blank of a stream over a certain distance

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Gradient

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9
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The blankets a gradient, the more the energy the stream has as it flows downhill

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Steeper, energy,

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10
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Mountain streams blank gradient. A streams blank is the course the water in a stream flows

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Steeper, channel

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11
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Blank is the blank of a water flowing past a certain point in a given unit of time and is usually measured in cubic meters per second

A

Discharge, volume

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Discharges change with blank and blank which in turn changes the size and length of a stream

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Rainfall snowmelt velocity

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13
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Having urban areas next to stream channel changes the discharge because the blank surfaces cause all precipitation to become blank, which increases the likelihood of blank

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Urban impermeable run off flooding

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The stream blank is the blank the water in a stream flows

A

Channel course

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15
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As water flows it encounters blank from the bottom and the sides of the channel

A

Friction

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16
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Larger channels will have blank flowing water because blank of the volume of water is encountering blank from the bottom and the sides

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Faster less friction

17
Q

What is the zone of saturation

A

The area where water fills all of the open spaces and sediment and rock

18
Q

The upper limit of the zone of saturation is the

A

Water table

19
Q

Groundwater miss by twisting and turning through interconnected small what

A

Openings

20
Q

When does the groundwater moves more slowly

A

When the pore spaces are smaller

21
Q

What is Porosity

A

Is the volume of open spaces and rock or soil

22
Q

The permeability of a material is its ability to release what

A

A fluid

23
Q

What are aquifers

A

Permeable rock layers or sediment that transmit groundwater freely

24
Q

wafers are a source of what

A

Well water

25
Q

What are impermeable layers that get in the way or prevent water movement

A

Clay

26
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What forms whenever the water table intersex the ground surface

A

A spring

27
Q

What is a spring

A

A flow of groundwater that emerges naturally at the ground surface

28
Q

What is a geyser

A

I Hot Spring in which a column of water shoots up with grape water at various intervals

29
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What is a well

A

A hole board into the zone of saturation

30
Q

And an artist and well groundwater rises on its what

A

Pressure

31
Q

If the aquifers at the coast drawn down salt water can intrude into the aquifers doing want to freshwater

A

Contaminating it

32
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What does groundwater erosion forms

A

Most wells at or below the water table in the zone of saturation

33
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What is a cavern

A

Is a naturally formed underground chamber

34
Q

What is a Tavern

A

Is a type of limestone formed over great spans of time from dripping water containing calcium carbonate

35
Q

What are resulting cave deposit

A

Dripstone

36
Q

Formations hanging from the ceiling or called what

A

Stalactites

37
Q

Formations on the ground are called

A

Stalagmites

38
Q

What is Krast Topography? What are numerous depressions called

A

Is an area that has been shaped largely by the dissolving power of groundwater and has a land surface with numerous depressions called
Sinkholes

39
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What is a sinkhole

A

Is a depression made in a region where groundwater has removed by soluble rock

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