Exam 9: Running Water and Groundwater

The Mississippi River has an average discharge of 17,300 cubic meters per second but the______ River discharges 12 times more water than the Mississippi River.

The Platte River crosses the Nebraska sandhills and carries large amounts of sand. It crosses relatively flat terrain that long ago was worn down. What kind of stream would you predict from this characteristic?

What term denotes the percentage of open space or voids in a material?

At a bend in a river, the main erosion is ______.

Which component of the water cycle describes the recharge of water to the soil and groundwater systems?

The capacity of a stream measures the_______ it is capable of transporting.

For a well to be characterized as being artesian,______ .

Which of the following is not a factor influencing a stream's flow velocity?

The below image is a picture of an incised meander. What process would have formed this?

The lowest base level for most streams is______ .

Examine the words and/or phrases below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. Choose the option that does not fit the pattern.

As stream discharge increases ______.

An______ is a circular to elliptical, closed depression in karst areas.

Which of the following is not part of the water cycle?

If you were to examine the profile of a typical river, you would probably find that the gradient is ______.

How does a permeable sandstone compare to a karst limestone in terms of groundwater flow?

A ______stream pattern is developed only on growing mountains like volcanoes or where the land surface is tectonically doming upward.

What is the name of the localized lowering of the water table shown in the diagram below?

______is the boundary line separating adjacent stream drainage basins.

Farmer Brown lives in a semi- arid part of the United States with numerous small lakes associated with glacial deposits of sand and gravel. He decides he needs to irrigate part of his land and drills a shallow well 100m from his property line with Farmer Smith who has a small lake just across the property line, and he depends on this lake to water his cattle. By late summer, Farmer Smith goes out to his lake and discovers it is dry. What happened?