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Question 1

Streams of the Great Smokey Mountains video:

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/secs-geog-mft-streams-
of-the-great-smoky-mountains
Which one of the following represents a common way that water feeds
into a stream bed?

Overland flow soaks through bedrock.

Correct! subterranean pool of groundwater reemerges as a spring.

By saturating impermeable soils when it rains.

A subterranean pool of groundwater bursts through a lake bottom.

Rain clings to vegetation along rivers, dripping into them.

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Question 2

Streams of the Great Smokey Mountains video:

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/secs-geog-mft-streams-
of-the-great-smoky-mountains
Where along a meandering stream would erosion occur most intensely?

along the river’s surface

down the middle of the channel

n the inside of a bend where water moves more slowly

Correct! along the outside of a bend where water moves fastest

wherever turbulence is least

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Question 3

Streams of the Great Smokey Mountains video:

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/secs-geog-mft-streams-
of-the-great-smoky-mountains
What is a river’s primary job?

to transport cobbles down a channel into lakes

to abrade grains of sand from rocks, leaving the rocks exposed to erosion

to wash debris and soil into other streams

Correct!
to transport silt, sand, and rocks (sediment) out of the mountains and down
to the sea

to transport effluence and other wastes into the ocean

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Question 4

Streams of the Great Smokey Mountains video:

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/secs-geog-mft-streams-
of-the-great-smoky-mountains
Often measured in “cfs” (cubic feet per second), the amount of water
moving past a given spot over a given amount of time is referred to as a
stream’s __________.

Regime

Meander

Superficial velocity

Turbulence
Correct! Discharge

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Question 5

Streams of the Great Smokey Mountains video:

https://mediaplayer.pearsoncmg.com/assets/secs-geog-mft-streams-
of-the-great-smoky-mountains
A stream is more likely to deposit its load of sediment when which of the
following occurs?

Correct! when its speed decreases

when it is cutting banks

when its turbulence increases due to waterfalls

when its turbulence decreases due to waterfalls

when its speed increases

Quiz Score: 10 out of 10