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Chapter 6.2 The Work of Streams
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- Q1What are the most important agents of erosion on Earth?GravityMass MovementsStreamsLandslides300s
- Q2How do streams erode channels?abrasion, wind and pressureGrinding, Dissolving and Windpressure, heat and erosionabrasion, grinding, and dissolving soluble material300s
- Q3What are the three ways streams transport sediment?dissolved load, suspended load, and bed loadCarrying capacity, driving forces, and pressureaction force, measured force and frictional forceDissolving and separating loads300s
- Q4Which load requires the most energy to move?Suspended LoadDissolved LoadGravel LoadBed Load300s
- Q5What are the two factors that determine the ability of a stream to carry a loadcompetence and capacitygradient and gravitycapacity and gradientgravity and competence300s
- Q6The competence of a stream measures what?The largest particles it can transportthe amount of dissolved material it can transportThe smallest particles it can transportthe amount of suspended particles it can transport300s
- Q7The capacity of a stream is the __________________load it can carry.flattestroundestsmallestmaximum300s
- Q8The settling of sediments in a stream that has slowed down is known as _________________.DroppingSublimationDepositionSettling particle separation300s
- Q9When a stream enters the relatively still waters of an ocean or lake its velocity drops and what feature is formed?DeltaSandbarPondGravel bar300s
- Q10A delta often forms what shape?PrismCircleRhombusTriangle300s
- Q11When 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 downWhen boulders roll along the stream bed and wear down the bedrockWhen discharge becomes so great that it exceeds the capacity of its channel and overflows300s
- Q12Limiting development on floodplains is effective because itis 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
- Q13What is a drainage basin?a place that hold no wateran area that is filled with treesanother term for tributarythe land area that contributes water to a stream300s