Exam 17: Karst and Hydrothermal Processes

Which of the following is a landscape feature that would be LAST to form on a karst landscape?

By far, the world's largest concentration of hydrothermal features occurs in ________.

Among all the hydrothermal areas in the world, the greatest concentration of activity is along the Firehole River in ________.

Calcium carbonate is most readily dissolved in ________.

Like limestone, ________ is highly susceptible to subsurface erosion.

Water in hot springs is usually impregnated with a great deal of dissolved mineral water.

In rock, ________ is an end product of common solution reactions.

This word is from the Icelandic for "gush" or "rage."

It might be said that karst and hydrothermal features are the result of "underground" fluvial processes and are covered in the "Karst and Hydrothermal" chapter of your textbook while surface fluvial processes form the core of the "Fluvial Processes" chapter. Compare/contrast the actions of water as a landscape former underground and at the surface.

In a cavern-as compared with its bedrock surroundings-lime readily precipitates from solution because ________.

The largest sinkholes are in ________ regions.

Jointing systems cause many caverns to have a(n) ________ pattern.

Hot water-such as that in hot springs-is a potent dissolver of minerals.

In the original language, "karst" means "________".

In karst topography, ________ are said to be the fundamental unit of both erosion and weathering.

Name the major limestone and karst regions of the United States.

Which of the following is an advantage of the use of geothermal energy?

Underground water is almost totally ineffective in terms of hydraulic power, erosion, and other kinds of mechanical erosion.

Geysers are associated with karst topography and sandstone bedrock.

The presence of a hot spring on the surface means ________.