Braided river - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

When water overbanks repeatedly in an area, that area is called a(n) - correct answer floodplain Another name for a watershed is - correct answer drainage basin ________ is a term that describes the joining of two streams together. - correct answer Confluence A rapid or waterfall is known as a - correct answer ...

ENVR 101 final exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. Verified. environmentally friendly - -designed not to harm the areas in which we live natural resources - -valuable substances such as wood and oil that exist in a country's land and sea climate change - -the way the world's weather is being altered so that it is becoming warmer natural disasters - -these can cause a lot of damage or kill a lot of people, for example, floods or earthquakes pollution - -the process of da...

ENVR 101 final exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. Verified. Who opened up and popularized public debate about the role and risks of pesticides in the 1960s? - -Rachel Carson he outcome of wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park demonstrates the [_______________] of environmental systems. - -interconnectedness The water pollution in the Cayahoga River was so severe that it has never recovered. This shows that NEPA, the EPA, and the Clean Water Act are not effective. ...

Landscapes - Earth Science Landscape - correct answer The shape of land surfaces Landscape type #1 - correct answer Mountains → High elevation, NOT flat, deformed/metamorphic/igneous rocks Landscape type #2 - correct answer Plains → low elevation + flat rocks (usually sedimentary) Landscape type #3 - correct answer Plateaus → high elevation + flat rocks inside Arid climate (DRY) topography - correct answer angular/stair-step Humid climate - correct answer more soil&vegetation- more r...

PHSC 210 Quiz 5 Liberty University Complete Answers QUESTION 1 A stream that flows in a desert and gets smaller and smaller as its water is absorbed by sand and gravel is called a(n) ______ stream. meandering braided disappearing misfit 2 points QUESTION 2 A hillside in Alabama with bent tree trunks and cock-eyed tomb stones and fence posts is probably experiencing soil creep solifluction slump mudflow talus creep 2 points QUESTION 3 Perhaps the world’s greatest modern natural disaster (in ter...

Chapter 03 - Life in Water Multiple Choice Questions 1. Which of the following vertical aquatic zones is correctly ordered from top to bottom? A. bathypelagic, mesopelagic, epipelagic, abyssal, hadal B. epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, abyssal, hadal C. abyssal, bathypelagic, hadal, mesopelagic, epipelagic D. epipelagic, bathypelagic, mesopelagic, hadal, abyssal E. mesopelagic, abyssal, epipelagic, hadal, bathypelagic Blooms: Remember Learning Objective: 03-02 The biology of aquatic...

AS GEOGRAPHY Paper 1 Physical Geography and People and the Environment Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes For Examiner’s Use Section Mark A B TOTAL Materials For this paper you must have:  a pencil  a rubber a ruler. You may use a calculator. Instructions  Use black ink or black ball-point pen.  Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.  Answer either Question 1 or Question 2 or Question 3 in Section A.  Answer either Question 4 or Question 5 in S...

Geography Grade 12 - Summary: Geomorphology - Fluvial Includes: - River systems - Drainage basin & catchment area - Features of a drainage basin - South African watersheds - Surface runoff and groundwater - Factors affecting surface runoff - Water table - Types of rivers & examples in SA - Drainage patterns - patterns that develop independently of the rock structure or gradient & other patterns - Drainage density & texture & factors - Stream order - Laminar and Turbulent flow - Lo...

Ablation The loss of ice/snow from a galcier system through melting, runoff etc. Abstraction Removal of water from the ground, permanently or temporarily 00:13 01:24 Active layer The part of permafrost which melts during summer months Absolute humidity Measure of water vapour in the air, regardless of temperature, in grams of moisture per m3 of air Adiabatic cooling Cooling of air as it rises Adiabatic expansion Decreasing air pressure as warm air...

complicated vs complex - ANS-complicated: machine, hard to put all the parts together complex: moving one part caused the others to change as well resilance - ANS-ability of a system to absorb disturbance while retaining basic structure and fxns symbiotic - ANS-organisms living together and benefiting one another sustainability - ANS-quality of human life and of the enviro that is not gained from the expense of the future What are the 5 E's that must be integrated into sustainabili...