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1 Copyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, GUIDE for CONTENT Master yChapter 9 Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Water MovementIn your textbook, read about surface water and the way in which it moves each excessive amount of water flowing downslope along Earth s surface is stream system s , or drainage basin, is all of the land areawhose water drains into a stream watershed of the is the largest in North water runs through or over rocks containing soluble minerals, it dissolvessmall amounts of the minerals and carries them away in . stream s consists of sand, pebbles, and cobbles that thestream s water can roll or push along the bed of the the measure of the volume of stream water that flowsover a particular location within a given period of each statement below, write trueor that contain grasses or other vegetation allow more water toenter the ground than do soils with no , gentle precipitation is more likely than heavy rain to end upas slope of the land has little influence on water s ability to enterthe stream s slope affects its carrying creates soil spaces.

2 Which increase the soil s ability tohold is a greater potential for erosion and flooding on gradual slopesthan on steep capacity increases as a stream s slope and discharge WaterNameClassDateSTUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER9 Copyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Water Movement, continuedIn your textbook, read about water on Earth s the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the path of a stream can vary considerably, depending on the slope of the land and the of humus present in the of material through which the stream of of the amount of dissolved material that stream water carries is usually expressed in per feet per per 1000 meters per a stream, how are particles such as silt, clay, and sand carried?

3 Dissolved bed suspension carrying capacity of a stream depends on both the velocity and the of the of material through which the stream dissolved in the of water in the may form on the bottom of a stream because in the stream s carrying increase in the dissolved increase in suspended of the following is true about watersheds? tributary in a stream system has its own t e r s h e d s a l w a y s c o v e r e x t r e m e l y l a r g e a r e a s . streams do not have a size of a watershed depends upon its of the following is NOT true about streams? streams flow streams flow into the are small large stream is called a water to enter the ground, there must be sufficient amount of sand in the enough spaces in the ground s surface particles clumping of the following statements is NOT part of the water cycle?

4 T e r f a l l s a s p r e c i p i t a t i o n b a c k t o E a r t h . t e r e v a p o r a t e s f r o m b o d i e s o f w a t e r o n E a r t h . t e r s o a k s i n t o t h e g r o u n d . t e r d i s s o l v e s m i n e r a l s f r o m r o c k s i t f l o w s o v e 9 Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the UniverseStudy GUIDE for CONTENT Master ySTUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER9 Copyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, DevelopmentIn your textbook, read about stream the following are the stream channel and the stream banks?

5 Does a stream valley form and how deep will it be downcut? the formation of a is a delta and how is it formed? is an alluvial fan and where are alluvial fans usually formed? is rejuvenation and under what circumstances does it occur? STUDY GUIDE for CONTENT Master yChapter 9 Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe55 STUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER9 Copyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, 9 Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the UniverseStudy GUIDE for CONTENT Master ySTUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT Development, continuedIn your textbook, read about stream each of the terms below just once to complete the piracysmalllengthening gainswaterfallslosesheadward erosionThe process by which small streams erode their forward paths through rock is called (7).

6 This process involves (8)thestream at the valley head. At this point in their development, streams are relatively (9).These streams flow swiftly over rough terrain and oftenform (10)and rapids as they flow over steep , a stream erodes its way through the high area separating twodrainage basins, joins another stream, and then draws away its water in a process knownas (11).The lower portion ofthe captured stream (12)its water source, while the invading stream (13)a source of your textbook, read about deposition of the space at the left, write trueof the statement is true; if the statement is false,change the italicized word or phrase to make it that lose headwaterslose their ability to carry fans are most common in dry,mountainous lose velocity when they join larger deposits usually consist ofsandand clay that form to carry stream water through a developing delta arecalled fans are composed mostly of sand and a delta develops, the flow of stream water Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, and Freshwater WetlandsIn your textbook, read about lakes and freshwater each item in Column A.

7 Write the letter of the matching item in Column AColumn depression in the landscape that collects and holds successional process that begins with theaddition of nutrients and continues with the fillingin of a periodically saturated area that develops after a lakefills in with areas often located near streams thatdevelop from filled-in dominant bedrock in areas where lakes canbe type of lake formed when meanders get cut offNumber the stages in the formation and eutrophication of lakes in the order in which they decayed material falls to the bottom of the lake,filling algae growth t e r s l o w l y d i s s o l v e s c a l c i u m c a r b o n a t e , f o r m i n g acavern in limestone of algae overpopulation, huge numbers oflake plants and animals fertilizers are picked up by runoff andflow into the percolates through limestone depression fills in with water from runoff andprecipitation to become a ceiling of a limestone cavern collapses and leavesa GUIDE for CONTENT Master yChapter 9 Earth Science.

8 Geology, the Environment, and the Universe57 STUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER9 Copyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, and Freshwater Wetlands, continuedIn your textbook, read about the origins of the letter that best answers the question or completes the of the following is NOT one of the ways that a lake can form? a. A stream cuts off a meander to leave an isolated channel of waters recede to lower-lying high in the mountains fill with causes a bog to become lake created by people for storing water is a(n) of the following determines where a lake can form?

9 Presence of an outlet to the ocean presence of a stream basins of glacial lakes formed a result of tectonic the ice ocean water the edges of of the following does NOT contribute to maintaining a lake s water supply? from direct usually fill in with sediment and cease to exist after thousand of thousands of of of millions of lakes are found in areas where the dominant bedrock is 9 Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the UniverseStudy GUIDE for CONTENT Master ySTUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER9