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The surface between the saturated zone (below) and the unsaturated zone (above) is called the__________.
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Water Table
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Development of a V-shaped valley eroded into local bedrock generally occurs _____ a stream system.
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In the headwaters of
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Streams that received water from the saturated zone of an unconfined aquifer - that is, ground water flows into the stream - are said to ____ streams.
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Gaining or effluent
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A "200-year" recurrence-interval flood has a ____ chance of occurring in a given year.
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1 in 200
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Crescent-shaped dunes, with the "horns" pointing downwind, must have their slip face pointing:
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In the downwind direction.
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Below the rigid zone, glacial ice deforms and moves _____.
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Primarily by plastic flow or creep, like "Silly Putty".
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Wave refraction produces a longshore current____ the shoreline.
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Parallel to
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A geologic ____ is a vertical representation of a portion of the earth's crust.
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Cross-section
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The "ridge-push" mechanism for plate motion suggests that plates slid downhill along the sloping boundary of the lithosphere and _____.
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Asthenosphere
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The boundary that separates the crust from the mantle is the _____.
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Mohorovicic discontinuity
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Topographically, the bulk of the sea floor is:
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Rugged hills and depressions.
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Bands of normal and reversed polarity that are symmetrical to the ridge crests prove:
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That the ridge crests are divergent.
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Which of the following would not generate a turbidity current:
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Subduction.
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Which of the following would not be associated with converging plate boundaries?
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Shallow focus earthquakes
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All of the following mark a plate boundary except the
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Hawaiian Islands
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