PRACTICE QUIZZES CONCERNING EXAM 4

Quiz #12--Streams and groundwater:

----1. State the term which refers to the lowest elevation to which a stream can erode

----2. Name the science or study of streams or groundwater

----3. Will the velocity of water increase or decrease if the channel width decreases?

----4. What is the portion of the stream which is located where the stream terminates?

----5. Name the stream load type which consists of particles bounced along the stream path

----6. Is the erosion along the path of a stream meander greater on the inside or outside of the meander bend?

----7. State the name given to any elevated land area or ridge which separates the direction of stream water flowage

----8. State which type of drainage pattern developes over a homogeneous rock type (uniform composition or hardness)

----9. Give the name of that type of groundwater formed from magma activity

---10. What is the measure of water capacity (how much water it can hold) of a rock called?

Answers to Quiz #12:

1. base level
2. geohydrology or hydrology
3. increase
4. mouth
5. bed load
6. outside
7. divide
8. dendritic or arborescent
9. juvenile
10. porosity

Quiz #13--Groundwater

----1. What is the name given to any permeable rock material which easily transmits water and from which we get usuable groundwater?

----2. State the name given to any surface stream which is abundant in arid climates and by its nature supplies (looses) water to the water table

----3. What is the following known as?: A measure of the amount of water retained by a rock

----4. Give the name of the area or zone in a rock material which contains most of the groundwater

----5. Give the name of the important rock quality related to groundwater which refers to the ability to transmit water

----6. Extreme pumping by a source may cause the water table to lower or drawdown in an extreme way nearest the pumping well. Give the name of the configuration taken by the water table by the drawdown

----7. State if sandstones are mostly permeable or non permeable substances

----8. Name the zone or area directly above the water table

----9. Give the name for groundwater with upper and lower barriers to movement

---10. Is siltstone a source of good quality groundwater?

Answers to Quiz #13:

1. aquifer
2. influent
3. specific retention
4. zone of saturation
5. permeability
6. cone of depression
7. permeable
8. zone of aeration or vadose zone
9. confined
10. no

Quiz #14--Groundwater and glaciers

----1. State the name of the deposit which grows from the roof of a cave

----2. State the name given to the kind of topography caused by solution effects of groundwater

----3. State the name of the concept which explains how a landbridge controls the amount of precipitation for growth or demise of continental glacial ice

----4. State the name given to a carbonate deposit formed by the action of groundwater and results in the merging of roof and floor deposits in a cave

----5. State the name given to all glacial deposits

----6. Give the name of the alpine glacial erosional feature consisting of an isolated peak appearing at the top of a mountain

----7. Give the name to the chain of lakes related to alpine glaciation

----8. Give the general name for non-stratified or unsorted glacial deposits

----9. What glacial feature is Bunker Hill? Bunker Hill was a famous Revolutionary War battle

---10. Name the glacial feature which is comprised of a non-sorted glacial deposit and covers a very large area overlain by glacial ice

Answers to Quiz #14:
1.stalactite
2. karst
3. Donn Ewing Concept
4. column
5. drift
6. horn
7. pater noster lakes
8. till
9. drumlin
10. ground moraine

Quiz #15--Deserts and Wind

----1. Which one of the following is most important in moving sand by wind action? a. suspension b. saltation c. sliding d. solution

----2. Give another name for the leeward slope of a sand dune

----3. Give the name of a deposit of silt formed from the deposition of the suspended load

----4. What is another name for a seif dune?

----5. What is the feature which forms as a result of local deflation in an area sparse in vegetation

----6. Name the type of active dune formed when wind direction is quite variable

----7. Name the wind erosion process which results in a type of sandblasting effect of materials

Answers to Quiz #15:

1. b
2. slip face
3. loess
4. longitudinal
5. blowout or deflation hollow
6. star or complex dune
7. abrasion


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