Geography

The main source of the dissolved load in a stream is ________.

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The greater the channel roughness, the ________ the stream.

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If you were to examine the profile of a typical river, you would probably find that the gradient is ________.

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The Mississippi River has an average discharge of 17,300 cubic meters per second but the ________ ...

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Which of the following is the correct definition of stream gradient?

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Which of the following is not a factor influencing a stream's flow velocity?

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Laminar flow, where water moves in approximately straight-line paths, characterizes ________.

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The trellis drainage pattern shown below develops ________.

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A dendritic (tree-like) drainage pattern develops in regions where the underlying material is ...

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Sediment production occurs primarily in ________ part of a river system.

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Which of these is considered to be "storage" part of the hydrologic cycle?

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Which one of the following statements is correct?

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Water plays an important role in sculpting the landscape of continents because ________.

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Approximately how much of Earth's water supply is saline?

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As a geologist working in a foreign country for the first time, you are asked to assess the ...

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Based on the examples and discussion in Chapter 4, what is the relationship of climate to ...

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Fill in the blanks on the diagram below with the names of the soil "layers" that are labeled.

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Which process of mass wasting occurs primarily in permafrost regions?

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________ is the fan-shaped pile of broken rock fragments at the base of a steep, bedrock slope or cliff.

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________ is the basic force that moves or accelerates soil and regolith down a slope.

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Which term denotes the true soil above the zone of partly weathered bedrock?

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What is the most abundant, naturally produced, weak acid involved in chemical weathering and soil formation?

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Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California, and Stone Mountain in Georgia are shaped mainly by ...

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Solifluction is an important mass wasting process in areas of ________.

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Repeated freezing and thawing are most important in ________ movements.

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