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Water Notes
Water Notes - Test IV
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Surface | lakes, rivers, oceans |
| Subsurface | groundwater |
| connate | water bound up / found in minerals |
| juvenile | water from outgassing of volcanism |
| fumarole | An opening in or near a volcano, through which hot sulfurous gases emerge. |
| black smokers | acidic |
| white smokers | alkaline |
| meteoric | atmospheric water 0-4% |
| lake | lacustine |
| river | fluvial |
| stream | alluvial |
| delta | deltaic |
| wind | aeolian |
| swamp | paludal |
| ocean | marine |
| beach | littorial |
| glacier | glacial |
| Microscopic shells are called | Tests |
| Biogenous | plants and animals |
| terrogenous | from land |
| Cosmogenous | from sky |
| 2 types of biogenous sediments produced | calcareous ooze and siliceous ooze |
| ultimate base level | sea level |
| temporary or local base level | lakes, resistant layers of rock, streams |
| Most of the dissolved load in streams comes from _____. | groundwater recharge |
| dissolved load | chemical (moved by water only) |
| suspended load | moved by water, wind, and ice. |
| bed/traction load | moved by water, wind, and ice. |
| Saltation | bounce |
| mass wasting | not an agent of erosion |
| mass wasting acts under the force of _____. | gravity |