GeoPhysical Science
Name:_________________________________________________________
Date:________________
Water and Surface Processes
I.
How is water distributed over the surface of the Planet? Fill in the pie graphs to show the
distributions.
All Water on Earth
II.
III.
All FRESH Water on Earth
All Accessible FRESH
Water on Earth
Water Budget: Define and give an example
How is the Earth Changed by surface process? Define Each and Give an Example
Action
Definition
Example of Where it takes place and what
it can create
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
IV: Agents of Erosion
Types of Erosion
Examples of How they affect the Earth
Wind
Water
Ice/Glaciers
What they can create?
GeoPhysical Science
Name:_________________________________________________________
Chemical Weathering
Physical Weathering
Types of Physical Weathering
Types of Chemical Weathering
Factors that affect the rate of Weathering
1)
3)
2)
4)
What is Porosity, Permeability, and Capillarity?
Date:________________
GeoPhysical Science
Name:_________________________________________________________
Date:________________
Mass Wasting/Mass Movement:
Examples of Fast Mass Movement
Examples of Slow Mass Movement
Number one factor in the speed of mass movement: ____________________
Other factors: ______________________________________________________________________________________
What is a watershed? Give a local Example
GeoPhysical Science
Name:_________________________________________________________
Date:________________
DIAGRAMING A RIVER
Directions: Use your text, and other reference material to diagram a river from its headwaters to its mouth. Colored
pencils should be used. Use the entire sheet. Include all of the following in your diagram. (You will have to look them
up!!!
Meander
Oxbow Lake
Chutes
Tributary
Point Bar
Cut Bank
Sand Bar
Rapids
Flood Plain
Island
Mouth
Abandoned Meander
Delta
Head Waters
Levee