Geology Final Exam
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| show | Solar Energy
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| show | Drainage basins
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| show | About 1.2%
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| show | The stream would lose energy and drop its sediments forming a delta.
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| How does an oxbow lake form? | show 🗑
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| Using the formula for discharge, which of these streams has the highest discharge? | show 🗑
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| Entrenched meanders on streams like the Colorado or San Juan flowing on the Colorado Plateau in Utah are a result of? | show 🗑
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| Topographic highs typically define which of these features? | show 🗑
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| show | nearby sources of coarse sediment
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| What is the result of tectonic elevation of the Colorado Plateau on rivers that flow across it? | show 🗑
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| Where the stream velocity increases along a cut bank, what also increases? | show 🗑
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| show | suspended, bed, dissolved
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| show | The Sun
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| What is a drainage basin? | show 🗑
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| show | Mississippi
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| show | Gradient of terrain, Stream channel area, Discharge
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| show | silt and clay
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| show | Bed load
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| Define what is meant by a river's CAPACITY? | show 🗑
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| What determines a river's capacity? | show 🗑
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| Define competence | show 🗑
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| What determines a river's competence? | show 🗑
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| What is base level? | show 🗑
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| show | Local base level and Ultimate base level.
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| show | temporary limit of stream erosion
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| What is ultimate base level? | show 🗑
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| What is a delta? | show 🗑
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| show | Close to base level
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| People try to control floods by engineering efforts such as? | show 🗑
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| show | Streams with a high sediment load and steeper slopes
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| show | Radical
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| Streams transport 3 forms of what sediment loads? | show 🗑
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| show | carried in solution
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| Suspended loads are? | show 🗑
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| show | carried by the stream along its bottom
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| Groundwater comprises what portion of all water of the hydrosphere of planet Earth? and what portion of that is fresh water? | show 🗑
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| show | The Phreatic zone
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| show | The Vadose zone
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| show | infiltration
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| The boundary between the two zones is the? | show 🗑
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| show | Gravel
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| What permits ground water to flow in the subsurface? | show 🗑
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| Clay has a high porosity but poor permeability - why? | show 🗑
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| Which of the materials below would make the best aquifer? | show 🗑
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| Ground water flows parallel to groundwater contours (lines of equal subsurface groundwater elevation)? | show 🗑
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| show | Clay
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| show | Inclined aquifer and Aquitards above and below the aquifer.
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| A high density of extraction wells and aggressive pumping can? | show 🗑
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| How much ground subsidence has occurred in San Joaquin Valley in California due to excessive groundwater removal? | show 🗑
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| show | Groundwater pumping
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| Three of the most common and dangerous sources of groundwater pollution are? | show 🗑
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| show | Limestone
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| What type of acid in solution (water) is present to dissolve limestone to form caves and sinkholes? | show 🗑
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