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Earth Science 101 Practice Test: Running Water and Groundwater
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Earth Science 101 Practice Test: Running Water and Groundwater
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1. The most common drainage pattern is ________.
2. Downcutting (also known as rejuvenation) of a stream may be due to ________.
3. The single most important erosional agent is ________.
4. Which of the following is associated with areas of karst topography?
5. Hot springs are most numerous in which region of the United States?
6. ________ are characteristics of downcutting streams and a youthful stage of valley evolution.
7. ________ is the volume of voids or open space in a rock or unconsolidated material.
8. Which of the following best describes how geysers erupt?
9. When water is pumped from a well, a depression is often produced in the water table. Such a depression is a(n) ________.
10. A ________ drainage pattern is common in areas where the bedrock is criss-crossed by a series of joints and/or faults.
11. The world's largest river in terms of discharge is the ________.
12. ________ describes the total sediment load transported by a stream.
13. Which of the following features characterize meandering streams and valleys?
14. At the head of a delta, the major channel splits into smaller channels that follow different paths to the sea. These smaller channels are known as ________.
15. A natural, meandering, river channel is modified into a more or less straight and smooth, canal-like channel. Which of the following statements is correct?
16. The suspended load of a stream ________.
17. A ________ stream pattern is developed only on growing mountains like volcanoes or where the land surface is tectonically doming upward.
18. Permeable rock strata or sediment that transmit groundwater freely are called ________.
19. The term karst topography was first used in ________.
20. Which one of the following factors does NOT influence stream velocity?
21. Which of the following is the correct definition of stream gradient?
22. ________ is an abandoned, cutoff, meander loop.
23. Caves most commonly form in ________.
24. At a bend in a river, the main erosion is ________.
25. ________ would have the largest capacity to naturally remove sewage pollutants.

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