Exam 16: Fluvial Processes

The elevation limit of a stream downcutting on a land mass is called ________.

Marking the outer edge of floodplains are landforms called ________.

Generally, a relatively small amount of material is transported by saltation as compared to other means of stream transport.

In the "peneplain" stage of the geomorphic cycle, there are no hills on the landscape.

The detachment and removal of fragmented rock material is known as ________.

If a stream's velocity is doubled, its competence ________.

The geographer William M. Davis was the principal researcher who developed what we now know to be equilibrium theory.

The amount of friction per cubic area in streamflow is maximized in wide, deep, smooth-bottomed rivers.

The natural levees on floodplains along large rivers merge outwardly and almost imperceptibly with the less well drained and lower portions of the floodplain, generally referred to as the ________.

The terms "drainage basin" and "watershed" are synonymous.

The world's largest streams are intermittent.

Aggradation occurs on geologically uplifted parts of Earth's crust.

A ________ is an erosional remnant on a peneplain surface.

Erosion is increased with increases in a stream's turbulent flow.

The direct collision of a raindrop with the ground, laterally shifting fine particles a few millimeters, is ________.

A prime example of the application of equilibrium theory can be seen in any hilly area where ________.

A typical drainage pattern on conic volcanic mountains would be ________.

Which of the following would be most likely to develop a radial drainage pattern?

Friction has little impact on the energy of water moving down a channel.

A ________ pattern of drainage usually develops on alternating bands of hard and soft strata.