WorksheetsHydrological Process
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
It is the study of water as it moves on, and under and through the Earth’s surface.
Evaporation
Condensation
Hydrology
Water cycle
It refers to water loss from vegetation to the atmosphere
Evaporation
Transpiration
Condensation
Evapotranspiration
It refers to the water loss that would occur if there were an unlimited supply of water in the soil for use by the vegetation.
Evapotranspiration
Condensation
Precipitation
Potential Evapotranspiration
Which of the following is not a factor that affects evaporation?
Vegetation cover
Albedo
Size of land
Wind speed
It is the range of moisture content in which permanent wilting of plants occur.
Wilting point
PEVT
Field capacity
Infiltration capacity
It is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds
Condensation
Dew
Precipitation
Snow
Water that either falls through gaps in the vegetation or which drops from leaves, twigs or stems
Interception loss
Interflow
Stemflow
Throughfall
It is the process by which water soaks into, or is absorbed by, the soil
Groundwater flow
Field capacity
Infiltration capacity
Infiltration
Which of the following ground cover has the highest infiltration rate?
Weeds and grain
Old permanent pasture
Bare soil
Permanent pasture
It is water that flows over the land’s surface
runoff
soil moisture
groundwater storage
interception
A ________________ is a line graph showing how water level in a river changes over time.
groundwater recharge
recessional limb
river regime
hydrograph
______________ is the speed with which the water level in the river declines after the peak.
Rising limb
Recessional limb
Water velocity
River discharge
___________________ refers to an individual storm or group of storms of not more than a few days in length.
Flood hydrograph
Annual River Regime
Hydrograph
Peak discgharge
________________ is the laying down of sediment carried by wind, water, or ice.
Deposition
Sedimentation
Weathering
Suspension
_________________ is the wearing away of the bed and bank by the load carried by a river.
Abrasion
Attrition
Hydraulic action
Solution
It is another term for river cliff.
levee
channel
bluff
floodplain
A ________________ is a depositional feature made of alluvium that accumulates on the inside bend of streams and rivers below the slip-off slope.
meander
lagoon
braided channel
point bar
____________________ are found in semi-arid areas where swiftly flowing mountain streams enter a main valley or plain at the foot of the mountains.
Deltas
Alluvial fans
Estuaries
Braided channels
_________________ is the volume of water flowing through a river channel.
Hydraulic radius
Wetted perimeter
River discharge
Peak flow
___________________ are river sediments deposited when a river enters a standing body of water such as a lake, a lagoon, a sea or an ocean
Deltas
Braided channels
Alluvial fans
Levees
