Unit 31 | Student Practice Quizzes | Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition

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Question 1:

The infiltration rate depends upon all of the following except ________.
a) soil characteristics
b) type of vegetation cover
c) slope of surface
d) air temperature
e) The rate depends on all of these factors.

Question 2:

The water velocity in the centre of a river’s channel is ________ than the velocity at the edges of the channel.
a) faster
b) slower
c) no different
d) more measurable
e) less measurable

Question 3:

The volume of water passing through a cross-section of a river’s channel is its ________.
a) runoff
b) velocity
c) discharge
d) infiltration rate
e) flow rate

Question 4:

The lower zone of groundwater is known as the ________.
a) zone of aeration
b) zone of saturation
c) vadose zone
d) hydro scopic zone
e) zone of hydration

Question 6:

The water table is located at the top of the ________.
a) zone of aeration
b) vadose zone
c) phreatic zone
d) lower aquiclude
e) upper hydration zone

Question 7:

________ learned to control the seasonal floods of streams, making irrigation and planned farming possible.
a) Water managers
b) Hydraulic civilizations
c) Irrigation farmers
d) Hydro planners
e) Irrigation civilizations

Question 8:

Canopy interception in Hemlock and Douglas Fir forests in British Columbia can have interception rates as high as ________ per cent.
a) 2
b) 5
c) 10
d) 20
e) 40

Question 9:

A stream’s gradient or slope is defined as ________.
a) the difference in elevation between two points along the stream course
b) the higher the elevation the greater the slope rating
c) the stream’s rate of flow at the fastest point
d) the stream’s rate of flow at the slowest point
e) any grade under 45 degrees

Question 10:

Not all water in a stream moves at the same speed or velocity. Water tends to move the slowest ________.
a) away from the bank or shoreline
b) right at the bottom
c) in the centre of the channel just below the surface
d) water moves at the same speed in all parts of the stream
e) right at the surface

Question 11:

A graph of a streams discharge over time is known as a ________.
a) hydrometer
b) water graph
c) hydrograph
d) stream flow graph
e) discharge graph

Question 12:

The permeability of a drainage basin is influenced by ________.
a) soil type
b) vegetation cover
c) soil moisture
d) freezing and thawing
e) All of the above.

Question 14:

The study of lakes, lake sediments and ecosystems is called ________.
a) hydrology
b) limnology
c) ecology
d) biology
e) hydrostatic studies

Question 15:

A lake that is rich in nutrients with a profusion of aquatic plants, and is subject to algal blooms, is classified as a ________.
a) Oligotrophic lake
b) Mesotrophic lake
c) Eutrophic lake
d) Hypertrophic lake
e) Aquatic lake

Question 16:

Springs are usually formed when the downward percolation of water is stopped by an aquiclude.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

An artesian well is simply a hole dug in the ground that penetrates the water table.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

A surface stream that emerges above the surface is called an aquifer.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

A confined aquifer usually lies between two aquicludes.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Hot springs are generally located above buried magma chambers.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

The amount of the drop in the locate water table is called the cone of depression.
a) True
b) False

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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 31