Exam 23: Surface Processes

Geologists define a(n) ______________ as any flow of water occurring between well-defined banks.

The movement of Earth's water supply from the oceans to the atmosphere and back again is called the ______________.

What is the second largest ocean on Earth?

Regions on Earth that have the driest climates are known as ______________.

A body of permeable rock through which groundwater moves is called

About what percent of Earth's surface is covered with water?

A large body of permeable rock or soil through which groundwater moves is called a(n) ______________.

A common depositional feature of shoreline topography is a

Earth's second largest ocean is the ______________ Ocean.

Small glaciers that form along mountains in hollow depressions that are protected from the Sun are called

______________ is the downslope movement of surface materials as a result of gravity and of the agents that cause such movement.

______________ (how many?) tidal bulges "move" around Earth daily.

The downslope movement of soil and rock under the influence of gravity is known, in general, as ______________.

The upper boundary of the zone of saturation is called the ______________.

The general geologic term for the downslope movement of soil and rock under the influence of gravity is

What is the largest ocean on Earth?

A stream's load is divided into three components: dissolved load, suspended load, and ______________ load.

The process of leveling of the Earth by the wearing away of high places and the transportation of sediments to, and their deposition at, lower levels is called ______________.

The limiting level below which a stream cannot erode the land is called its

After the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, the next largest ocean on Earth is which ocean?