ERSC 101 Exam 3 study guide Question
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Drainage Basin - correct answer ✔An area of land drained by a river and its
tributaries
Vertical Erosion - correct answer ✔A geological process by hydraulic action
that deepens the channel of a stream or valley by removing material from the
stream's bed or the valley's floor
Deposition - correct answer ✔The geological process in which sediments,
soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass
Bed Load - correct answer ✔Describes particles in a flowing fluid that are
transported along the bed
Suspended Load - correct answer ✔The portion of its sediment uplifted by
the fluid's flow in the process of sediment transportation
Dissolved Load - correct answer ✔Material, especially ions from chemical
weathering, that are carried in solution by a stream
Wavelength - correct answer ✔The distance between successive crests of a
wave
Wave Height - correct answer ✔The difference between the elevations of a
crest and a neighboring trough
and answers already passed
Drainage Basin - correct answer ✔An area of land drained by a river and its
tributaries
Vertical Erosion - correct answer ✔A geological process by hydraulic action
that deepens the channel of a stream or valley by removing material from the
stream's bed or the valley's floor
Deposition - correct answer ✔The geological process in which sediments,
soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass
Bed Load - correct answer ✔Describes particles in a flowing fluid that are
transported along the bed
Suspended Load - correct answer ✔The portion of its sediment uplifted by
the fluid's flow in the process of sediment transportation
Dissolved Load - correct answer ✔Material, especially ions from chemical
weathering, that are carried in solution by a stream
Wavelength - correct answer ✔The distance between successive crests of a
wave
Wave Height - correct answer ✔The difference between the elevations of a
crest and a neighboring trough
