River
Systems
Ground
water
Glaciers
Rock
Record
Earth’s
Past
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I-100
• List 5 Characteristics of a Young River
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I-200
• List 5 characteristics of a mature river
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Answer
I-300
• A term used to describe the rocks and other
materials that a stream carries.
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Answer
I-400
• List one indirect method of flood control.
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Answer
I-500
• What is the different between a delta and an
alluvial fan?
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Answer
II-100
• The layer of an aquifer in which the pore
space is completely filled with water is call
the…
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Answer
II-200
• The term describing the sloping layer of
permeable rock sandwiched between two
layers of impermeable rock and exposed at
the surface
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Answer
II-300
• A cone-shaped deposit of calcite on the
ceiling of a cave is called…
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Answer
II-400
• Karst topography forms in…
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Answer
II-500
• What is the area where water from the
surface can move through permeable rock
to reach an aquifer?
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Answer
III-100
• Describe what happens to a glacier when
new snow is added to the glacier faster than
the ice and snow melt.
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Answer
III-200
• The Milankovitch theory attempts to
explain what?
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Answer
III-300
• The following features or formed by what?
– Cirque, arete, and horn
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Answer
III-400
• What forms when a glacier deposits till in
the form of a ridge?
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Answer
III-500
• Name at least three features formed by
glacial DEPOSITION.
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Answer
IV-100
• What law/principle describes the idea that
younger layers of undisturbed sedimentary
rock are above older layers of sedimentary
rock?
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Answer
IV-200
• Rates of erosion are not used to date
geographical features over a million years
old because?
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Answer
IV-300
• Comparing the father isotopes to daughter
isotopes is used for what process?
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Answer
IV-400
• List the four ways in which organisms can
be fossilized.
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Answer
IV-500
• How are fossils formed in very dry places?
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Answer
V-100
• What is an ordered arrangement of rock
layers?
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Answer
V-200
• What is a chart outlining the development
of Earth and life on Earth?
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Answer
V-300
• What is the most common Precambrian
Fossil?
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Answer
V-400
• A geologic era that began about 542 million
years ago and ended about 251 million
years ago.
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Answer
V-500
• Describe the Mesozoic Era
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Answer
I-100 A
• Most Powerful, Mountainous Regions,
Strong cutting Power, Waterfalls, Load of
silt’s & sands & mud’s & pebbles &
boulders, White water, Steep gradient,
Colorado River, Very abrasive, Potholes,
Fast current, Rapids, Not navigable
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I-200 A
• Flat regions, oxbow lake, loads of silts and
muds, slow current, transportation,
Mississippi river, Illinois river, Fox River,
Well developed drainage basin, meander,
flood plain, levee, flat gradient
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I-300 A
• Stream Load
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I-400 A
• Soil Conservation
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I-500 A
• A delta forms in water and an alluvial fan
forms on land.
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II-100 A
• The zone of saturation
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II-200 A
• Artesian Formation
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II-300 A
• Stalactite
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II-400 A
• In both dry and wet areas
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II-500 A
• The recharge zone
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III-100 A
• The glacier gets larger
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III-200 A
• The causes of the ice ages
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III-300 A
• Glacial EROSION
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III-400 A
• Moraines
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III-500 A
• Till, erratic, glacial drift, moraine, drumlin
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IV-100 A
• Law of superposition
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IV-200 A
• Rates of erosion are constant only for about
20,000 years
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IV-300 A
• Radioactive decay to determine the absolute
age of rocks
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IV-400 A
• Freezing, petrification, amber,
mummification
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IV-500 A
• Mummification
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V-100 A
• Geologic column
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V-200 A
• Geologic Time Line
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V-300 A
• Stromatolite
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V-400 A
• Paleozoic Era
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V-500 A
• The geologic era known as the Age of the
Reptiles
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Final Jeopardy Question-Topic – The
Water Cycle!!!
• Draw a diagram of the water cycle and be
sure to include the FOUR main features of
the water cycle that was discussed in class
and on the webquest!!!
• Music
Answer—Final Jeopardy
• Condensation, Evaporation, Transpiration,
and Precipitation