Which one of the following statements is correct? sea level drops as water is st

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Which one of the following statements is correct? sea level drops as water is stored in expanding ice sheets and continental glaciers sea level rises when water is added to the oceans through increased rainfall and increased inflow from rivers sea level drops when evaporation rates increase over the oceans and the extra atmospheric moisture falls on land as rain Which of the following is a correct definition of stream gradient? the distance traveled by water in a channel times a drop in elevation the drop in elevation of a stream divided by the distance the water travels the water pressure at the bottom of the stream divided by the stream's width the increase in discharge of a stream per unit drop in elevation .____make up the suspended loads of most rivers and streams. Dissolved salts Coarse sand and gravel Sandstone and granitic pebbles Silt- and clay-sized particles none of the above A water gap is____. a short segment of canyon formed where a river flows across the outcrop area of a ridge-forming rock layer the narrow strip of land separating two meander loops a vertical-walled canyon resulting from very rapid stream downcutting a low- sag in a natural levee that allows flood waters to move into a back swamp ____are streams diverging from a central high area such as a dome. Dendritic trellis radial rectangular ____is an abandoned, cutoff, meander loop. A bull neck An oxbow A cow hock A deer tail A____is the speleothem that grows upward from the floor of a cavern. Stagmite stalactite stalagmite standalite they never grow from the floor What is meant by the term "drawdown" in association with a pumping well? horizontal diameter of the cone of depression measured at the elevation of the original water table volume of groundwater withdrawn from the cone of depression above the water table vertical distance between the original water table and the current water level in the well Which of the following best describes an artesian well? water rises above the top of the aquifer without any pumping pressurized groundwater rises from a deep, unsaturated aquifer warm and saline water bubbles up from a perched water table aquifer A perched water table develops when____. an aquifer above the regional water table is overlain by a horizontal aquitard a horizontal aquitard above the regional water table lies below an aquifer an aquitard below- the regional water able lies above a horizontal aquifer.

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35 c

36 . b . - The drop in elevation...

37 . d . Silt and clay sized particles

38. a - a short segment of canyon...

39. radial

40; b. an oxbow

41 c. stalgamite

42. c

43. a ( a well which rises above the top of aquifier without pumping )

44 b

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