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Chapter 6.2 The Work of Streams

Quiz by JAMES LEITHAUSER

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  • Q1
    What are the most important agents of erosion on Earth?
    Gravity
    Mass Movements
    Streams
    Landslides
    300s
  • Q2
    How do streams erode channels?
    abrasion, wind and pressure
    Grinding, Dissolving and Wind
    pressure, heat and erosion
    abrasion, grinding, and dissolving soluble material
    300s
  • Q3
    What are the three ways streams transport sediment?
    dissolved load, suspended load, and bed load
    Carrying capacity, driving forces, and pressure
    action force, measured force and frictional force
    Dissolving and separating loads
    300s
  • Q4
    Which load requires the most energy to move?
    Suspended Load
    Dissolved Load
    Gravel Load
    Bed Load
    300s
  • Q5
    What are the two factors that determine the ability of a stream to carry a load
    competence and capacity
    gradient and gravity
    capacity and gradient
    gravity and competence
    300s
  • Q6
    The competence of a stream measures what?
    The largest particles it can transport
    the amount of dissolved material it can transport
    The smallest particles it can transport
    the amount of suspended particles it can transport
    300s
  • Q7
    The capacity of a stream is the __________________load it can carry.
    flattest
    roundest
    smallest
    maximum
    300s
  • Q8
    The settling of sediments in a stream that has slowed down is known as _________________.
    Dropping
    Sublimation
    Deposition
    Settling particle separation
    300s
  • Q9
    When a stream enters the relatively still waters of an ocean or lake its velocity drops and what feature is formed?
    Delta
    Sandbar
    Pond
    Gravel bar
    300s
  • Q10
    A delta often forms what shape?
    Prism
    Circle
    Rhombus
    Triangle
    300s
  • Q11
    When do floods occur?
    After long periods of drought, especially in the summer months.
    When there is too much sediment being carried and the water slows down
    When boulders roll along the stream bed and wear down the bedrock
    When discharge becomes so great that it exceeds the capacity of its channel and overflows
    300s
  • Q12
    Limiting development on floodplains is effective because it
    is more expensive to build structures on flat land.
    helps keep floodwaters within stream channels.
    allows floodplains to absorb floodwaters with little harm to structures.
    eliminates wide stream meanders.
    300s
  • Q13
    What is a drainage basin?
    a place that hold no water
    an area that is filled with trees
    another term for tributary
    the land area that contributes water to a stream
    300s

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