Ch 6 Running Water and Groundwater

Which of these landforms is characteristic of an area with karst topography

• mountains

• canyons

• sinkholes

• drumlins

The energy for the water cycle comes from the

• ocean

• sun

• atmosphere

• soil

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Caverns form when rocks such as limestone are dissolved by a mixture of water and

• carbonic acid

• sulfur dioxide

• nitrogen

• ammonia

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How does water move from plants to the atmosphere?

• infiltration

• precipitation

• transpiration

• condensation

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A stream's drainage basin is all the water that

• flows into it

• infiltrates from it into the ground

• is removed from it for drinking water

• is within 100 km of its channel

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One major cause of floods is

• rapid spring snowmelt

• a decrease in stream discharge

• light rain over a large area

• increased capacity of stream channels

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Springs form where

• there is no water table

• flooding makes streams overflow their banks

• groundwater sinks into the soil

• the water table intersects the ground surface

Which of the following is NOT a major source of groundwater pollution?

• sewage

• compost

• pestisides

• industrial chemicals

Balance in the water cycle means that

• the average annual precipitation over Earth equals the amount of water that evaporates

• water that falls to Earth only enters oceans

• the amount of water that falls to earth weighs the same as the amount that condenses in clouds

• water that evaporates from earth's surface remains forever in the atmosphere

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Base level is

• the lowest point to which a stream can erode its channel

• any part of the stream that is below sea level

• the source from which the stream flows

• the elevation of a streams largest tributary