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| is the ocean, the remainder is distributed among ice sheets and glaciers, ground water lakes, steams and the atmosphere |
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| water vapor condenses to form clouds |
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| water that sleeps into the ground |
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| water that does not soak in flows access the surface |
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| water that soak in the ground is taken up by plants |
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| rocks parallel to the slope |
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| on the brink of being unstable but depends on the circumstances |
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| very dangerous and unstable disaster waiting to happen |
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| how do we help maintain stability of slope |
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| dont exceed the angle of repose and maintain gravity |
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| what are the various types of classification for mass |
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| rapid debis flow, moderate rock topple, slow earth slide |
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| what is the angle of repose for sand |
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| 30-40 steepest angle without being wet |
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| where is water stored in the earth materials |
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| in the pore spaces and soaked into the hillside |
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| how does water help maintain the stability of slope |
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| the slope absorb the water but to much water can cause damage |
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| the function of a stream is to drain water from land |
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| one stream is separated from another by imaginary line |
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| the slope of the stream channel |
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| is a swamp located by the river |
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| is where the water is cutting into the river bank |
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| is a flat land adjacent to a stream or river susceptible to flood plane |
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| naturally built up ground formed as a result of changing river |
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| an enclose body of water formed from an old meander |
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| the inside bank of a meander where sediment is deposited |
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| a than small stream that runs parallel to the river |
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| general is behind in water course stream or river |
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| where is discharge greatest and why |
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| near its mouth because its more discharge and a greater velocity |
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| the sediment dumps where stream enter into lakes or the ocean |
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| describe the evolution of a stream |
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| maturity, downcutting of stream channels and lowering of near by hills, old age downcutting was lowering the channel system to hear base level |
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| below the water table, all pure spaces in the sediments and rocks are filled with water |
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| pore space are unsaturated and filled mainly with air and above the water table the capillary triage |
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| percentage of the total volume of a body of rock that consist of open space pores |
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| a measure of how easily a solid allows fluids to pass through |
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| created by the weigh of the water above well cause the water to rise |
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| water must be confined to an aquifer that is inclined so that one end can receive water |
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| a body of rock that is water saturated porous and permeable |
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| a layer of impermeable rock |
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| what are the two largest potential sources of fresh water |
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| the vertical distance from though to crest |
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| the horizontal distance separating successive crests or successive |
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| the tune internal between the passage of successive crests or successive |
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| a current within the surf sone that flows parallel to the coast |
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| wave approaches the shore it length decrease and its height increase |
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| wave length shorters and velocity decrease |
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| wave bending around the end of beach |
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| what is the most common cause of waves |
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| storm winds that are carried to distant shores |
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| what is the depth at which the water is no longer affected by a wave |
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| what determines the height of a wave |
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| how do waves erode the shoreline |
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| force applied per unit of area |
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| an irreversible change in the shape and size of a rock body |
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| gradual change in shape on volume of a material caused by flowing and bending |
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| gradual change in shape or volume in which a material breaks or crack |
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| angle of inclination of inclined layer relative to the horizontal |
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| imaginary surface which goes through all the axial line can also be faded above |
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| rock bellow the fault plane |
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| fractures along which no significant displacement has occured |
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| compass direction of the line produced by a dipping layer or feature interspersing with horizontal plane |
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| what is the major different between an anticline and syncline |
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| anticle fold in form an arch, syncline fold in form of a trough |
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| sudden movement of stressed blocks of earth crust along a fault |
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| locked edges of plates bend until frictional resistance is done |
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| the plant on earth surface directly above an earthquake recess |
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| what are some difference between a body wave and surface wave |
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| body wave travel through earth interior, surface waves travel along earth surface |
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| there are two types of body waves |
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| p-waves pass through solid liquids and gases, s-waves can not be transmitted through liquids or gases |
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