Section #: 9.1 Surface Water Movement

Practice Test
      
  1.How can a watershed's water quality be measured?  
  a.   measuring the average stream velocity  
  b.   measuring the erosion  
  c.   measuring the concentration of material in solution  
  d.   measuring the water temperature  
  Hint    
      
  2.What are large particles that are rolled or pushed on the bed of the stream called?  
  a.   bed load  
  b.   runoff  
  c.   discharge  
  d.   suspended load  
  Hint    
      
  3.The graph shows the discharge of a river flowing through two cities. A discharge of 3.5 thousand cubic meters per second or more will cause the river to flood. Which city saw more flooding in March 1999?



 
  a.   neither one flooded  
  b.   They both saw the same amount.  
  c.   Wet Gulch  
  d.   Frankston  
  Hint    
      
  4.What is the name for the land area that separates two watersheds?  
  a.   a peninsula  
  b.   a divide  
  c.   an island  
  d.   a stream bank  
  Hint    
      
  5.How is Earth's water supply recycled?  
  a.   Water on Earth is not recycled.  
  b.   through lakes  
  c.   rivers  
  d.   the water cycle  
  Hint    
      
  6.__________ is the measure of the volume of stream water that flows over a certain location over a given amount of time.  
  a.   discharge  
  b.   runoff  
  c.   velocity  
  d.   bed load  
  Hint    
      
  7.What is the broad, flat area that extends from the banks of a stream?  
  a.   a meander  
  b.   a channel  
  c.   a cut bank  
  d.   a floodplain  
  Hint    
      
  8.If gardeners want more water to infiltrate into their gardens, how should they change the soil?  
  a.   increase the amount of silt sized particles  
  b.   increase the amount of clay-sized particles  
  c.   increase the amount of coarse particles  
  d.   decrease the amount of humus  
  Hint    
      
  9.Soil with vegetation allows __________ water to infiltrate than soil without vegetation.  
  a.   the same amount of  
  b.   more  
  c.   less  
  d.   always ten times more  
      
  10.Water that flows downslope along Earth's surface is called __________.  
  a.   bed load  
  b.   runoff  
  c.   discharge  
  d.   precipitation  

 
   
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