Dynamic Planet Review 1

Zone of__________: The area below ground in which the pore space is filled with water

• Aeration

• Saturation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Sulfur oxides

The Chara muskgrass, is considered as which type of aquatic plant?

 

• Anadromous

• Submergent

• Surface

• Hypolimnion

Which of the following is not a way in which lakes are formed?

• Geological Activity

• Glacial Deposits

• Meander Rivers

• Scaffolds

What features are common in youthful river channels?

• Meanders

• Flood plains

• Rapids

• sandbars

Old rivers are characterized by

• High erosive energy

• Tectonic activity

• Straight channels

• Sediment deposition

A river will cause the most erosion with:

• Low gradient

• Low discharge

• High gradient

• High discharge

A river can be rejuvenated by…

• Increasing its slope

• Decreasing its speed

• Increasing the number of tributaries

• Decreasing its depth

When does the process of _____ occur as waves reach shallow water.

• abduction

• Percolation

• Subduction

• shoaling

Reorder the following:

What is the order of reef formation?

• barrier

• Fringing

• atoll

The build up of nutrients in a lake is a process called ________________.

• Limnetion

• Littoralization

• eutrophication

• succession