Xavier - Ateneo de Cagayan - BIOLOGY 101

Question1)What is infiltration?

Question 2 What percentage of Earth's water is in the form of seawater?

Question 3 Examine this map of the Mississippi River's drainage basin. Then match the five lettered locations with the best description of that location.

Question 4

Which of the following variables will be greatest at the headwaters of a stream and least at the mouth of the stream?

Question 5

Which part of a stream's sediment load moves most slowly?

Question 6

During what periods would streams see the greatest erosion and transportation of sediment?

Question 7

A                                 stream consists of a complex network of converging and diverging channels that weave around channel bars

Question 8

What is base level?

Question 9

Has the stream shown in this photograph equilibrated with base level?

Question 10

When precipitation falls, water may not immediately soak in, run off, or evaporate.

Question 11

Running water is the single most important erosional agent sculpting Earth's land surface.

Question 12

As stream velocity slows, the smallest particles get deposited first.

Question 13

Point bars are locations where erosion occurs whereas cutbanks are locations where deposition occurs.