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Concept 3 Quiz

Give examples illustrating the connection between landscape features and runoff including channels, stream valleys, flooding events, and drainage patterns.

This activity contains 12 questions.

Question 1.
Identify each of the indicated valley features by selecting the correct response.

(Valley features diagram, Copyright © Prentice Hall, Inc.)

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The letters A through F appear on an image associated with this question.

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Question 2.
The function of artificial levees built along a river is to control

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Question 3.
Which one of the following would least likely be found in a wide valley?

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Question 4.
Ultimate base levels for rivers include lakes and resistant layers of rock.

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Question 5.
The drainage pattern that develops when the bedrock is crisscrossed by many right-angle joints and/or faults is the radial pattern.

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Question 6.
Raising a stream's base level will cause the stream to

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Question 7.
The reduced current velocity at the inside of a meander results in the deposition of coarse sediment, especially sand, called a cut bank.

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Question 8.
As velocity drops abruptly when a stream or river enters quieter waters of an ocean or lake a depositional feature called a _____ is formed.

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Question 9.
Point bars form on the inside of the meander.

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Question 10.
The flat, broad portion of a valley floor covered with alluvium is called

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Question 11.
This drainage pattern forms when there are alternating layers of resistant and less resistant rock.

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Question 12.
When a river cuts through to follow a shorter, straighter channel it leaves an abandoned bend called a/an

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