Exam 15: Running Water

Floodplains are always depositional and never erosional.

Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. -Choose the option that does not fit the pattern.

Which one of the following is true concerning a major river system?

Point bars are depositional features located along the outer portions of meander bends at the foot of the steep cutbank.

If you saw a dendritic drainage pattern what would you suspect about the underlying bedrock?

Which one of the following statements is true concerning natural levees?

Which one of the following does not apply to stream turbulence and average velocity?

Which of the following statements is false about braided streams?

________ is the boundary line separating adjacent, stream drainage basins.

Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the relationship among the majority of words/phrases. -Choose the option that does not fit the pattern.

The ________ river has the largest discharge in North America.

________ are formed by swirling eddies with rock particles that drill into stream beds.

________ is the amount of precipitation that soil can absorb.

________ describes the particle transport mode in streams intermediate between suspension and rolling along the bottom?

________ are components of the hydrologic cycle that release water vapour directly to the atmosphere.

Which deposits form during flood stage on a subaerial delta plain?

At the head of a delta, the major river divides into numerous, smaller channels.What are these smaller channels?

On the spaces provided below each illustration, name the type of drainage pattern that is illustrated. a)______________________________ b)______________________________ c)______________________________ d)_____________________________

Most precipitation in land areas originates by transpiration and by evaporation from lakes and rivers.