Exam 3 Review
Material –
Physical Geology
Terms:
alluvial fan bar base level bed load braided stream delta drainage pattern dentritic pattern trellis pattern rectangular pattern radial pattern discharge dissolved load distributary divide drainage basin flood plain hydrologic cycle incised meander meander meander cutoff |
natural levee oxbow lake point bar cut bank saltation stream gradient stream terrace suspended load traction tributary yazoo tributaries aquifer artesian well cone of depression confined (artesian)
aquifer ground water karst topography permeability porosity recharge |
saturated zone spring sinkhole stalactite stalagmite unconfined aquifer unsaturated zone water table atoll barrier reef fringing reef guyot continental shelf shelf break continental rise continental slope abyssal plain mid-ocean ridge ocean trenches fracture zone mantle plume active margin passive margin |
40. What is the difference
between active and passive margins?
41. How do
fringing
reefs develop into atolls?