Exam 5: Running Water and Groundwater

A ________ stream pattern is developed only on growing mountains like volcanoes or where the land surface is tectonically doming upward.

Hot springs are most numerous in which region of the United States?

A river emerges from a valley onto a flat plain,but the river itself lies in a narrow,shallow canyon as it crosses the plain,then plunges into a steep sided canyon as it flow past the plain.A geologist floating down the canyon headed for the whitewater in the canyon notices the river is flowing through lake deposits as it flows across the plain.What happened in this area?

Most caves and caverns originate by solution of limestone.

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The lowest elevation limiting stream erosion is called ________.

Caves most commonly form in ________.

The hydrologic cycle is not balanced right now and,as a result,sea level is rising.

Lowering of the water table around a pumping well results in a cone of infiltration.

________ is an abandoned,cutoff,meander loop.

In the canyonlands of Utah and Arizona,canyon walls often support "hanging gardens" in which plants cling to sandstone cliffs and these hanging gardens are typically along shale beds in the sandstone.These areas are deserts,so what might explain these features?

________ generally constitutes the highest percentage of the annual sediment load moved by a stream.

A natural levee is ________.