b. infiltration: The movement through or into an area or territory occupied by either friendly or enemy troops or organizations. The movement is made, either by small groups or by individuals, at extended or irregular intervals. When used in connection with the enemy, it infers that contact is avoided.
c. transpiration: the act or process or an instance of transpiring
d. water balance: the ratio between the water assimilated into the body and that lost from the body; also: the condition of the body when this ratio approximates equilibrium
2. precipitation (image): the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
e. Streamf low: the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
f. gradient: A rate of inclination; a slope
g. stream channel (image): A long, narrow, sloping troughlike depression where a natural stream flows or may flow. Also known as streamway.
h. discharge: To relieve of a burden or of contents; unload.
i. head of a stream: Where the stream starts
j. mouth: the point where a river issues into a sea or lake
k. tributary (Image): Making additions or yielding supplies; contributory.
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l. velocity: The speed of something in a given direction.
m. ultimate base level: the lowest level to whichrunning water can erode the land.
n. meanders (image): A winding curve or bend of a river or road
Ch 6 Unit 2 Vocabulary, Images and Essential Questions
zone of saturation (image) the ground below the water table.
groundwater
Water beneath the earth's surface, often between saturated soil and rock, that supplies wells and springs.
water table. the surface of the water-saturated part of the ground, usually following approximately the contours of the overlying land surface.
permeability The property or condition of being permeable or the rate of flow of a liquid or gas through a porous material.
aquifer (image) a porous deposit of rock, such as a sandstone, containing water that can be used to supply wells.
Spring (image) a natural outflow of ground water, as forming the source of a stream
Geysers A natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air.
Artesian Well (image)
A well drilled through impermeable strata to reach water capable of rising to the surface by internal hydrostatic pressure.
Groundwater Contamination Groundwater contamination occurs when man-made products such as gasoline, oil, road salts and chemicals get into the groundwater and cause it to become unsafe and unfit for human use. Some of the major sources of these products, called contaminants, are storage tanks, septic systems, hazardous waste sites, landfills, and the widespread use of road salts, fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals.
cavern (image) A large underground chamber, as in a cave.
Travertine (Image) A light-colored porous calcite, CaCO3, deposited from solution in ground or surface waters and forming, among other deposits, stalactites and stalagmites.
calcite (Image)
A common crystalline form of natural calcium carbonate, CaCO3, that is the basic constituent of limestone, marble, and chalk. Also called calcspar.
Stalactite (hanging) IMAGE
An icicle-shaped mineral deposit, usually calcite or aragonite, hanging from the roof of a cavern, formed from the dripping of mineral-rich water.
stalagmites (ground) IMAGE
A conical mineral deposit, usually calcite or aragonite, built up on the floor of a cavern, formed from the dripping of mineral-rich water.
Karst-Topography The underground water of karst topography carves our impressive channels and caves that are susceptible to collapse from the surface.
6.3 Vocabulary, Images and essential questions.
a. Erosion: The group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface
b. Capacity: The ability to receive, hold, or absorb
c. Alluvium: Sediment deposited by flowing water, as in a riverbed, flood plain, or delta. Also called alluvion
d. Delta (image): A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.
e. Natural levee (image): a gently sloping bank that forms in the part of the floodplain adjacent to the channel, where the flow of floodwater from the channel to the floodplain is slowed down and coarse-grained material, primarily sand, is deposited. On large flatland rivers, such as the Mississippi, natural levees may be up to 5–6 m high and 4.5–5 km wide
f. Man-made (image): Man made refers to something that was created by humans, as opposed to by God or nature
g. V shape stream ( image) The headwater valleys have a relatively steep gradient and a cross-sectional profile that is "V" shaped with the stream occupying the bottom of the "V".
h. U shape stream (image)Known as an ox-bow bend or a horseshoe bend. The river will naturally have more water in one side than the other. Caused by bed shape or bed friction. Now, the water close to the bed is travelling slowest, because of turbulence due to bed roughness.
i. rapids (image) part of a river where the current is very fast and turbulent
j. waterfalls (image) a cascade of falling water where there is a vertical or almost vertical step in a river
k. floodplain (image) the flat area bordering a river, composed of sediment deposited during flooding
l. oxbow lake (image) A crescent-shaped lake formed when a river changes its course and cuts through the strip of land in the middle of an oxbow, abandoning its previous course and isolating the water in the oxbow.
m. FLOODS: An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
n. drainage basin: An area drained by a river system. A drainage basin includes all areas that gather precipitation water and direct it to a particular stream, stream system, lake, or other body of standing water.
b. infiltration: The movement through or into an area or territory occupied by either friendly or enemy troops or organizations. The movement is made, either by small groups or by individuals, at extended or irregular intervals. When used in connection with the enemy, it infers that contact is avoided.
c. transpiration: the act or process or an instance of transpiring
d. water balance: the ratio between the water assimilated into the body and that lost from the body; also : the condition of the body when this ratio approximates equilibrium
1. evaporation (image): vaporization, vanishing, disappearance, dispelling, dissolution, fading away,
melting
2. precipitation (image): the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
e. Streamf low: the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
f. gradient: A rate of inclination; a slope
g. stream channel (image): A long, narrow, sloping troughlike depression where a natural stream flows or may flow. Also known as streamway.
h. discharge: To relieve of a burden or of contents; unload.
i. head of a stream: Where the stream starts
j. mouth: the point where a river issues into a sea or lake
k. tributary (Image): Making additions or yielding supplies; contributory.
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l. velocity: The speed of something in a given direction.
m. ultimate base level: the lowest level to which running water can erode the land.
n. meanders (image): A winding curve or bend of a river or road
Ch 6 Unit 2 Vocabulary, Images and Essential Questions
- zone of saturation (image) the ground below the water table.
- groundwater
Water beneath the earth's surface, often between saturated soil and rock, that supplies wells and springs.- water table. the surface of the water-saturated part of the ground, usually following approximately the contours of the overlying land surface.
- permeability The property or condition of being permeable or the rate of flow of a liquid or gas through a porous material.
- aquifer (image) a porous deposit of rock, such as a sandstone, containing water that can be used to supply wells.
- Spring (image) a natural outflow of ground water, as forming the source of a stream
- Geysers A natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air.
- Artesian Well (image)
A well drilled through impermeable strata to reach water capable of rising to the surface by internal hydrostatic pressure.- Groundwater Contamination Groundwater contamination occurs when man-made products such as gasoline, oil, road salts and chemicals get into the groundwater and cause it to become unsafe and unfit for human use. Some of the major sources of these products, called contaminants, are storage tanks, septic systems, hazardous waste sites, landfills, and the widespread use of road salts, fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals.
- cavern (image) A large underground chamber, as in a cave.
- Travertine (Image) A light-colored porous calcite, CaCO3, deposited from solution in ground or surface waters and forming, among other deposits, stalactites and stalagmites.
- calcite (Image)
A common crystalline form of natural calcium carbonate, CaCO3, that is the basic constituent of limestone, marble, and chalk. Also called calcspar.- Stalactite (hanging) IMAGE
An icicle-shaped mineral deposit, usually calcite or aragonite, hanging from the roof of a cavern, formed from the dripping of mineral-rich water.- stalagmites (ground) IMAGE
A conical mineral deposit, usually calcite or aragonite, built up on the floor of a cavern, formed from the dripping of mineral-rich water.- Karst-Topography The underground water of karst topography carves our impressive channels and caves that are susceptible to collapse from the surface.
6.3 Vocabulary, Images and essential questions.a. Erosion: The group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface
b. Capacity: The ability to receive, hold, or absorb
c. Alluvium: Sediment deposited by flowing water, as in a riverbed, flood plain, or delta. Also called alluvion
d. Delta (image): A usually triangular alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river.
e. Natural levee (image): a gently sloping bank that forms in the part of the floodplain adjacent to the channel, where the flow of floodwater from the channel to the floodplain is slowed down and coarse-grained material, primarily sand, is deposited. On large flatland rivers, such as the Mississippi, natural levees may be up to 5–6 m high and 4.5–5 km wide
f. Man-made (image): Man made refers to something that was created by humans, as opposed to by God or nature
g. V shape stream ( image) The headwater valleys have a relatively steep gradient and a cross-sectional profile that is "V" shaped with the stream occupying the bottom of the "V".
h. U shape stream (image)Known as an ox-bow bend or a horseshoe bend. The river will naturally have more water in one side than the other. Caused by bed shape or bed friction. Now, the water close to the bed is travelling slowest, because of turbulence due to bed roughness.
i. rapids (image) part of a river where the current is very fast and turbulent
j. waterfalls (image) a cascade of falling water where there is a vertical or almost vertical step in a river
k. floodplain (image) the flat area bordering a river, composed of sediment deposited during flooding
l. oxbow lake (image) A crescent-shaped lake formed when a river changes its course and cuts through the strip of land in the middle of an oxbow, abandoning its previous course and isolating the water in the oxbow.
m. FLOODS: An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
n. drainage basin: An area drained by a river system. A drainage basin includes all areas that gather precipitation water and direct it to a particular stream, stream system, lake, or other body of standing water.