181 Quiz

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Seafloor Features

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Basin, Canyon, Continental shelf, Continental slope, Plains, Ridges, Seamounts, SillsDep

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Deep Depression of the Seafloor

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Basin

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Narrow, deep furrow with steep slope

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Canyon

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Zone adjacent to continent, most productive waters

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Continental Shelf

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Seaward Descending Slope

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Continental slope

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Very flat surfaces found in deep ocean biomes

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Plains

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Long, Narrow, elevations with steep sides and rough topography

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Ridges

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Isolated elevations from the seafloor

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Seamounts

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Low part of ridges

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Sills

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Long, narrow, deep depressions with steep sides.

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Trenches

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Marine Zonation in order (Sunlight)

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Euphotic

Disphotic

Aphotic

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Marine Zonations (Depth)

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Pelagic:

Epipelagic

Mesopelagic

Bathypelagic

Abyssopelagic

Benthic

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Boundary between mesopelagic and bathypelagic

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Oxygen Minimum Layer

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What happens in the OML

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oxygen and Nutrients decrease

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Types of Freshwater bodies

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Lentic (stagnant) and Lotic (moving)

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Types of Lentic Bodies

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Lakes, Ponds, Reservoir, Wetland, Rock pool, Tree hole, Bog

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Deep body of freshwater surrounded by land

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Lake

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Smaller body of fresh water surrounded byland

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Pond

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Artificial pond or lake

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reservoir

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Soil Saturated with water

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Wetland

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Depression in a rock

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Rock pool

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Small pools inside trees

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Tree hole

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Small lake with acidic water

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Bog

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Moving waters towards other moving waters

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Rivers, Streams

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Depression recieving flow from groundwater

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Spring

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Stream that only flows in a part of the year

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Intermittent streams

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Artificial waterway

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Canal

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Still water in a floodplain of a river

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Backwater

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Wetland influenced by river and sea

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Estuary

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Lake Zonations

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Pelagic Zone (surface)

Euphotic zone

Aphotic Zone (not always present)

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Zone thats is closesnt to thr shore

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Littoral zone

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Where very fine sediments are transpoted

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Deep zone

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Zonations of Rivers

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Source zone, Transistion zone, Floodplain zone

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Curves of Rivers

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Meanders

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When 2 meanders of a river intersect and change paths, what do they form?

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Oxbow Lakes

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Processes that shape rivers

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Weathering, Mass movement, Erosion

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Types of Weathering

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Freeze-thaw, Biological, Chemical

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Types of Mass movement

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Soil creep, Slumping

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Types of erosion

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Headward, Vertical, Lateral

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Main Processes of Erosion

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Hydraulic action, Abrasion, Attrition, Corrosion

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Water pressure breaks away rock particles

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Hydraulic Action

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Zonations in reservoirs

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Riverine - Transition - Lacustrine

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Commonly narrow zone (Reservoir)

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Riverine

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Where water starts to lose energy (Reservoir)

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Transition zone

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CO2 dissolves in water to form weak acid that dissolve rocks by chemical processes

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Corrosion

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Dyanamics of the source zone

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Predominant erosion

Vertical Erosion