Running water quiz

This unending circulation of Earth’s water supply is
called _____

• Running water

• water cycle

• Infiltration

The movement of surface water into rock or soil through cracks and pore spaces

• Transpiration

• Infiltration

• Streamflow

• Gradient

The release of water into the atmosphere from plants through the ground  

• Infiltration

• Transpiration

The ability of a stream to erode and transport materials depends largely on its velocity.

• Gradient

• streamflow

• stream channel

the slope or steepness of a stream channel.

• Streamflow

• Gradient

• discharge

• streamchannel

the course the water in a stream follows.

• Gradient

• Discharge

• stream channel

the volume of water flowing past a certain point in a given unit of time

• Discharge stream

• Tributary

• meanders

A stream in a broad, flat-bottomed valley that is near its base level often develops a course with many bends called

• Tributary

• meanders

• alluvium

• bedload

an accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or ocean.

• Bedload

• capacity

• deltas

• natural levee

A valley shows that the stream’s primary work has been downcutting toward base level.

• Narrow Valley

• wide valley

• Down valley