Name ___________________________
Water Above and Below Ground
1. What is an alluvial fan? Where do we find them? ( general location, not specific)
2. A gap in the mountains where a river has cut through and is still flowing through
is called ___.
3. Region that drains into a specific river is known as_____.
4. Describe the appearance of a youthful stream.
5. Stream deposits that outline a river and help reduce flooding are called ____.
6. What are the 3 stages of the water cycle?
7. What do we call smaller streams that flow into a larger stream?
8. What does the gradient tell us about a stream?
9. Deposits of silt and sand carried by a river and dumped when the river enters a
quiet body of water are known as _______.
10. Wide curving bends in a river are called _____.
11. A gap in the mountains where a river has cut through and has abandoned is called
a _______.
12. What is a divide?
13. What does a mature river look like?
14. What does an old river look like?
15. What is an oxbow lake? How do they form?
16. What age of a river no longer erodes, only deposits material?
17. What is the water table?
18. What do we call deposits left behind by hot springs? What is the main mineral in
these deposits?
19. What kind of underground rock do we find in areas where there are caverns?
20. A pillar-like cave deposit hanging from the ceiling is known as ____.
21. A pillar-like cave deposit that sits on the ground is called _____.
21. What forms when a cavern roof collapses?
22. What is an aquifer?
23. What is the difference between a spring and an artesian well?
24. How deep does a well need to be?
25. What makes water hard? Do we have hard water here?
26. What causes a natural bridge?
27. Describe Karst Topography. What causes it?
28. Name some places where there is Karst Topography.
29. Describe how a geyser works.
30. Draw and label an artesian formation.