1. How does the vegetation surface type affect the amount of runoff? Speculate why this happens. Dense vegetation has layers over the soil so it takes longer to absorb which would have the least runoff. The more water that falls, it takes even longer to absorb into the soil. When bare soil is on a flat surface the runoff rate will be lower because although there is a runoff because there is nothing protecting the soil it absorbs more quickly. 2. How does the smooth mountain rock surface type affect the amount of runoff? Speculate why this happens. There are small fractures on the surface of mountain rocks and they only absorb a small amount of water. So the surface of a smooth mountain rock will have a higher runoff rate. 3. How does the bare soil surface type affect the amount of runoff? Speculate why this happens. …show more content…
It has a high runoff rate because the water washes the soil away. 4. How does vegetation slow and prevent sediment loss? Vegetation has a shield like effect that slows down and prevents any sediment loss. 5. How does vegetation allow greater infiltration? The roots in plants absorb all the extra water which decreases the runoff. 6. How does pavement or smooth rock runoff affect waterways? The water moves at a faster rate since there is nothing to absorb the water, which could cause flooding. 7. How do heavy sediment deposits affect waterways? Heavy sediments could cause buildup and deposit toxins into other bodies of water. 8. How does sediment loss affect land and soil quality? When it floods sediments can affect the land by losing nutrients in the soil and it can also affect the clarity of
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The sharp differences in elevation between the Badwater Basin and the surrounding mountains that include the highest point in the continental US (Mt. Whitney at 14,494 feet) stand as a representation of the regions violent tectonic past. The mountains themselves are considered fault block mountain ranges meaning that they were formed when blocks of rocks were squeezed through the Earth's crust along parallel faults or were loosened from the crust when it separated at a fault. In the valley, both of these methods not only were the cause of the current mountains formation less than four million years ago, but also are causing the mountains to be uplifted while the valley floor drops even further. This phenomenon is one of the reasons why the lowest and highest points in the continental... ...
fluctuating due to canals that have been dug to redirect water, which prevents the natural filtering
Why Depositional Landforms Occur Along the Course of A River Rivers have three courses. The course is the journey the river makes to reach the sea. Rivers never have a straight course from source to mouth. Their course is always irregular. Along this course depositional landforms can occur.
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Although Iran is located in the arid and semi- arid climate, but this glaciated area is sustained by moisture- laden southerly wind originate from the Caspian Sea. These winds collide with the Northern slopes of the Tackt e Solaiman mountainous and produce an estimated average snowfall of about 452 cm/year. This orographic precipitation occurs during the 65 days in year. Also, a significant amount of precipitation falls during the October- December (Vaziri, 2003). The surface of Alamkouh is characterized by a system of ridges and depressions and oriented parallel to the overall flow direction. The most part of the Alamkouh surface is covered by debris. Typical origins of such debris accumulation include debris-laden snow avalanches, episodic rock avalanches and long-lasting rockfall activity, heavy rains or weathering processes.
Some say that the only reason glaciers are melting is because of low evaporation and not hot temperatures. That is one of the reasons , but the other is because there is some mu...
Kato, Tasuku, Hisao Kuroda, and Hideo Nakasone. "Runoff Characteristics of Nutrients from an Agricultural Watershed with Intensive Livestock Production." Journal of Hydrology 368.1-4 (2009): 79-87. Web.
Water that has changed throughout the hydrologic process travels from the irrigation treatment and enters into the aquifers. First...
The cause of this change in mass is called osmosis. Osmosis is the movement of water. through cells in plants. I make my prediction on the pretext that water diffuses from high concentration cells to low concentration. cells.
If the gradient is steep (like the example on the right) then this can indicate that the amount of rainfall becoming overland flow is very high, the result of this is that all the water reaches the river very quickly and all in a short period of time, this gives the immediate steep ascending limb on the hydrograph. Reasons for large amounts of rainfall becoming overland flow can be little vegetation and maybe impermeable rock below the surface. Being impermeable rock, the water cannot infiltrate through this and become ground water, instead it flows over the ground to the river. Urban development and agricultural practices contribute to overland flow.
And acid rain, which is created when water in the atmosphere mixes with chemicals, ravage through rain forests and can even kill fish.
In the warmer summer season however glacial ice goes through a period of melting. The source of the Brahmaputra starts in the Himalayas and an increase in melted-water flowing through its drainage basin will increase channel flow, saturate soils and cause massive overland flow – a major cause of flooding. Another major cause is the cyclonic storms t... ... middle of paper ... ... urther problems some where else.
There are many different glacial landforms created by glacial erosion, one of these landforms is U-shaped valleys or glacial troughs. This glacial landform has many distinct characteristics. One of these characteristics is that it has very steep valley sides caused by the glacier as it moves down the valley eroding the sides of the valley by the processes of abrasion and plucking. Abrasion is when the boulders and moraine carried by the glacier rubs and erodes the valley side as it physically moves down the valley. Plucking happens when the water in the glacier freezes inside of the cracks in the individual rocks on the valley side then the water freezes and as the glacier moves the rock is plucked or torn from the valley side producing the steep side to the valley.
a change in the water cycle. Some places may experience more rain. Warmer temperatures will