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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is an open system?
An area where the hydrological systems drains into a main river
The water found in the cracks and spaces in soil
A system that has inputs, processes and outputs
The movement of water into the soil surface.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What are closed systems?
A continual circulation, there is a definite amount of water in the system and that this amount does not change.
Water lost from the drainage basin system
Downhill movement of water in rivers
The water found in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock. It is stored in and moves slowly through geologic formations of soil, sand and rocks called aquifers.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Inputs is...
A freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream, river or other body of water
The place where the river enters the ocean
Circulation of water over the land or under the grounds surface that make water move within the river basin
Water that enters a drainage basin system
- 4. Multiple Choice
Outputs are...
The movement of water into the soil surface
Water lost from the drainage basin system
The combined loss of evaporation and transpiration
The upper layer of water stored underground
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is a River Drainage Basin System?
All rivers receive a water supply from a drainage basin system
Downhill movement of water in rivers
The upper layer of water stored underground
When the river is divided and separated into different river flows
- 6. Multiple Choice
Define a Drainage Divide in geographical terms
When the river is divided and separated into different river flows
Higher ridge of land, the boundary between one drainage basin and another
Surface runoff
The precipitation that is collected and stored by vegetation
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is a River´s Source?
A watershed
Water that enters a drainage basin system
The place where a river starts
A store
- 8. Multiple Choice
River´s mouth?
The part of a river that connects/intercepts with the ocean
Where the river separates into three.
A supply of water
An aquifer
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is a tributary?
A process of the hydrological cycle
A part of streamflow that has infiltrated the ground
A freshwater stream that feeds into a larger stream, river or other body of water.
When the river is divided and separated into different river flows.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What happens at a confluence of a river?
When the river is divided and separated into different river flows.
Downhill movement of water in rivers.
When the river floods
The water is lost from the drainage basin system
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is defined by drainage basin system?
Circulation of water over the land or under the grounds
When the water of a river gets polluted
The place where a river system will have numerous sources.
An area where the hydrological systems occurs and drains into a main river
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is overland flow (surface runoff)?
A huge amount of water in a specific area
The water that stays in the soil
The movement of water over the land, downslope toward a surface water body.
Water that infiltrates into the soil
- 13. Multiple Choice
Channel flow refers to...
An area where the hydrological systems occur
The movement of water into the soil
A downhill movement of water in rivers
A part of steamflow that has infiltrated in the ground
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is the groundwater?
Water from rain
The precipitation that is collected and stored by vegetation
The upper layer of water stored underground
The water found in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock
- 15. Multiple Choice
What is Groundwater flow?
Continual circulation, this means that there is a definite amount of water in the system and that this amount does not change
A part of streamflow that has infiltrated the ground, and has been discharge into a stream channel, or springs and seepage water
Higher ridge of land, the boundary between one drainage basin and another
When the river is divided and separated into different river flows
- 16. Multiple Choice
The water that is found in the subsurface of the soil
Soil moisture
Interception
Evapotranspiration
Infiltration
- 17. Multiple Choice
The movement of water that is found in the subsurface of the soil
Precipitation
Percolation
Infiltration
Evaporation
- 18. Multiple Choice
The movement of water into rock from the soil layer above
Soil Moisture
Precipitation
Water Table
Percolation
- 19. Multiple Choice
The upper layer of water stored underground
Water table
Infiltration
Evapotranspiration
Interception
- 20. Multiple Choice
The conversion and transfer of moisture in the atmosphere of the lans
Percolation
Precipitation
Interception
Infiltration
- 21. Multiple Choice
The precipitation that is collected and stored by vegetation
Evaporation
Water Table
Interception
Percolation
- 22. Multiple Choice
When water is heated by the sun (in the case of the water cycle), it turns into vapour
Infiltration
Evapotranspiration
Transpiration
Evaporation
- 23. Multiple Choice
The combined loss of evaporation and transpiration
Evaporation
Transpiration
Evapotranspiration
Evatranspiration
- 24. Multiple Choice
What is the meaning of flows?
Circulation of water overland or underground surface that make water move within the river basin
Higher ridge of land, the boundary between one drainage basin and another
The place where a river begins
The place where the river connects the ocean
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