Test One Flashcards
Therefore blank must equal blank
Evaporation must equal precipitation
We must have a balanced in the what cycle to ensure fresh what for consumption
Water Water
The water cycle is powered by energy from the
Sun
Once precipitation hits the ground it then becomes blank water blank Or blank water
Running water, groundwater, or surface water
Blank has the most influence on the way blank makes its way to the blank because water naturally flows blank
Gravity, water, oceans, downhill.
What is the movement of surface water into rocks or soil through cracks and poor spaces
Infiltration
The ability of a stream to blank and transport materials depends largely on its what
Erode, velocity
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
Velocity, shape, channel, gradient
The blank of a stream is the amount of change in the blank of a stream over a certain distance
Gradient
The blankets a gradient, the more the energy the stream has as it flows downhill
Steeper, energy,
Mountain streams blank gradient. A streams blank is the course the water in a stream flows
Steeper, channel
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
Discharge, volume
Discharges change with blank and blank which in turn changes the size and length of a stream
Rainfall snowmelt velocity
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
Urban impermeable run off flooding
The stream blank is the blank the water in a stream flows
Channel course
As water flows it encounters blank from the bottom and the sides of the channel
Friction
Larger channels will have blank flowing water because blank of the volume of water is encountering blank from the bottom and the sides
Faster less friction
What is the zone of saturation
The area where water fills all of the open spaces and sediment and rock
The upper limit of the zone of saturation is the
Water table
Groundwater miss by twisting and turning through interconnected small what
Openings
When does the groundwater moves more slowly
When the pore spaces are smaller
What is Porosity
Is the volume of open spaces and rock or soil
The permeability of a material is its ability to release what
A fluid
What are aquifers
Permeable rock layers or sediment that transmit groundwater freely
wafers are a source of what
Well water
What are impermeable layers that get in the way or prevent water movement
Clay
What forms whenever the water table intersex the ground surface
A spring
What is a spring
A flow of groundwater that emerges naturally at the ground surface
What is a geyser
I Hot Spring in which a column of water shoots up with grape water at various intervals
What is a well
A hole board into the zone of saturation
And an artist and well groundwater rises on its what
Pressure
If the aquifers at the coast drawn down salt water can intrude into the aquifers doing want to freshwater
Contaminating it
What does groundwater erosion forms
Most wells at or below the water table in the zone of saturation
What is a cavern
Is a naturally formed underground chamber
What is a Tavern
Is a type of limestone formed over great spans of time from dripping water containing calcium carbonate
What are resulting cave deposit
Dripstone
Formations hanging from the ceiling or called what
Stalactites
Formations on the ground are called
Stalagmites
What is Krast Topography? What are numerous depressions called
Is an area that has been shaped largely by the dissolving power of groundwater and has a land surface with numerous depressions called
Sinkholes
What is a sinkhole
Is a depression made in a region where groundwater has removed by soluble rock
