Chapter 9 - Water Erosion - Tri 3

Question 1

What is a spit?

Answer 1

Sediment reaching into the water

Question 2

Water that does not soak into the ground or evaporate is called _______

Answer 2

Runoff

Question 3

All of the water the feeds a lake or river system is called a(n) ___________

Answer 3

Watershed

Question 4

A(n) ___________ is a curve in a river that has been cut off from the rest of the river.

Answer 4

Oxbow Lake

Question 5

A(n) _______________ is a deposit from wave action bringing material away from the shore.

Answer 5

Sandbar

Question 6

A curve in a river system is called a(n)

Answer 6

Meander

Question 6

A(n) ___________ is a triangular shaped deposit of material as a river enters a larger body of water.

Answer 6

Delta

Question 7

As waves crash on the shore, a(n) __________ is created that pulls material away from the beach.

Answer 7

Undertow

Question 7

_____________ is when waves get deflected by the shoreline causing them to move down the shore.

Answer 7

LongShore Current

Question 8

A(n) _____________is a triangular shaped deposit of material at the base of a mountain or hill.

Answer 8

alluvial fan

Question 9

What are the water Erosion types?

Answer 9

Running Water and Wave action

Question 9

A(n) ____________ seperates watersheds from each other.

Answer 9

Divide
Ex Rockies and savage street in SL

Question 10

Running water Erosion is caused from….

Answer 10

1. runoff
2. streams
3. rivers

Question 10

Running water creates ???

Answer 10

Runoff

Question 11

Runoff is effected by….

Answer 11

1. Soil
2. Precipitation
3. Vegetation
4. Slope

Question 12

Does water moving faster move more material? t/f

Answer 12

True

Question 13

which feature formed as a result of the growth of a spit?

Answer 13

A baymouth Bar

Question 14

Describe how barrier islands and tombolo form.

Answer 14

Undertow pulling away

Question 15

What bodies of water are protected from the oceans waves?

Answer 15

lagoons

Question 16

Where did the sediment needed to build depositional features shown come from?

Answer 16

Erosion

Question 17

What are 3 things that can happen to water when it rains?

Answer 17

Evaporation, runoff, soak into the ground.

Question 18

Why do meanders form on rivers?

Answer 18

the river wants to continue the way it goes in a curving pattern they connect and eventually become a meander.

Question 19

How do deltas form?

Answer 19

A river enters a larger body of water and loses energy dropping material/sediments.

Question 20

Why do beaches have differences in the sand?

Answer 20

The rocks, the climate, if people go there often.

Question 21

How do sandbars form away from the shore?

Answer 21

Undertow dropping sediments

Question 22

An example of an erosional feature formed from running water is ___________.

Answer 22

Meander

Question 23

An example of deposition from wave action is a ___________.

Answer 23

Beach

Question 24

___________ determines the amount of runoff. a. The amount of vegetation b. The amount of rain c. The slope of the land d. All the above

Answer 24

d. All the above

Question 25

When people remove vegetation, they _________ runoff and the erosion process.

Answer 25

speed up

Question 26

barrier island

Answer 26

a narrow deposit of sand that runs parallel to the shoreline

Question 27

beach

Answer 27

a deposit of sediment from the erosion of shorelines

Question 28

floodplain

Answer 28

low flat area next to a river that can fill with water during high waters

Question 29

meander

Answer 29

curve in a stream

Question 30

oxbow lake

Answer 30

a cutoff meander

Question 31

Water that flows over land and neither soaks into the ground or evaporates is called

Answer 31

runoff

Question 31

longshore current

Answer 31

flow of water that moves along the shoreline

Question 32

watershed

Answer 32

the land area that supplies a water system

Question 33

A triangular deposit when a river enters a larger body of water is called a(n)

Answer 33

delta

Question 34

The depositional feature in Lake Michigan formed when sand is brought away from the shoreline is called a(n)

Answer 34

sandbar

Question 35

Meander

Answer 35

water erodes outside the curves Ex: inertia

Question 36

water always has to go somewhere...

Answer 36

1.flows downhill 2. floodplains 3. fils lakes and streams

Question 37

Running water deposition

Answer 37

When water loses all its energy it drops sediment.

Question 38

Running water deposition examples

Answer 38

alluvial fan, delta, plume, inside of a curve