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Lake & Coastline Hydrology
Exam
Aquatic Science
1. Which body of water has the
greatest retention time?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Mississippi River
Lake Conroe
Seals Gully
Lake Superior
Lake Vostok
2. When is water in a lake least
mixed?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
3. When would a lake have its
warmest water at its bottom?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
4. Here is a picture of Galveston
Bay,TX. What best describes what
Galveston Bay is?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
River delta
Drowned river mouth
Drowned Glacial Valley
Coral Reef
Mangrove Bank
5. Here is a map of Kenai Fjords,
AK. What best describes it?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
River delta
Drowned river mouth
Drowned Glacial Valley
Coral Reef
Mangrove Bank
6. Where would gravity be the main
mover of water?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Lake Baikal
Lake Conroe
Seals Gully
Lake Superior
Lake Vostok
7. Here is a picture of one of the
prettiest beaches in Texas, Fulton
Beach along the Coastal Bend region.
A. Submergent?
B. Emergent?
8. Why is this necessary for
Galveston beaches?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The natural sand is too
polluted from oil spills.
We are on an emergent
coastline and losing
shoreline due to wave
erosion.
Sediment from the
Mississippi goes the
other way now.
Reservoirs in our rivers
are blocking sediment
flow, starving our
beaches of new
material.
9. What is the main sculptor of this
impressive coastline, located in
Oregon?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Glaciers
Rivers
Coral Reefs
Volcanoes
Waves
10. What has formed most of
Canada’s lakes?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Glaciers
Volcanoes
Tectonic Rifting
Meteors
11. The Aral Sea in Central Asia is a poster case
for an environmental disaster. What caused it?
A. Extreme drought
B. Excessive rain
C. Chernobyl Nuclear
Disaster
D. Breakup of the
Soviet Union
E. Diversion of the
lake’s two tributaries
for irrigation.
12. According to current thinking,
Lake Vostok is most like…in its
geology.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Lake Manicouagan, Quebec
Lake Malawi, Africa
Caspian Sea, Eurasia
Lake Titicaca, South America
13. Here is South America’s most
famous beach – Rio de Janeiro’s
Ipanema. What kind of beach is it?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Marine Depositional
Wave Erosional
Glacier Erosional
Stream Erosional
Need more help? Go to
http://www.maplandia.com/brazil/minas
-gerais/coronel-fabrici/ipanema/ for a
Google Map image.
14. During the Glacial Maximum of
18,000 years ago, what was dry
land?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Pink
Green
Yellow
Pale Blue
All of the above
15. Here is another beach in South
America – the Chilean Fjords. Do
these represent a (A) rise, or (B)
fall in sea level?
16. What is the major
sculptor here?
A.Waves
B.Ice
C.Longshore
Currents
D.Coral
17. Here is a picture of El Capitan in
Guadalupe Mountains National Park,
TX – part of the world’s largest fossil
reef.
250 million years ago,
this was underwater.
It was a(n)…
A. Volcanic coastline
B. Marine Depositional
Coastline
C. Organic Coastline
D. Stream Depositional
Coastline
18. Here is Lighthouse Reef Atoll in
Belize. What does this represent?
A. The beginning stages
of a volcano
B. The remains of a
volcanic island
C. A crater impact
19. Here are the Florida Keys.
What kind of coastline do they
represent?
A. Wave Erosional
B. Stream
Depositional
C. Marine
Depositional
D. Organic
Depositional
20. With its limestone floor, Lake
Okeechobee, FL, most likely
formed from a…
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Crater impact
Volcano
Earthquake
Sinkhole
Glacier
21. Which
landform was
built up by
longshore
currents?
A.
B.
C.
22. Despite not being channelized or extensively
modified, Armand Bayou looks very different today
What
would be a reason for this?
(R) than what it looked like in 1953 (L).
A.
B.
C.
D.
Fall in sea – level
Subsidence
Wave Erosion
Stream Deposition
23. Which lake would be
considered to be oligotrophic?
A. Lake Charlotte,
TX
B. Reelfoot Lake, TN
C. Redfish Lake, FL
D. Crater Lake, OR
C
D
A
B
24. Which lakes were formed by a
collision of tectonic plates?
25. A rifting of tectonic plates?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Lake Titicaca, South America
Lake Baikal, Asia
Lake Tanganyika, Africa
Caspian Sea, Eurasia
Salton Sea, CA
26. Which of these African lakes does NOT
belong with the rest, being completely
different in its geology?
A. Lake Chad
B. Lake Malawi
C. Lake Albert
D. Lake Tanganyika
E. Lake Victoria
27. Which is NOT a major factor in
moving water about in a lake?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Wind
Gravity
Temperature differences
Density differences
28. Here is the famous Na Pali
coast of Kauai, the oldest of
Hawaii’s major islands. What kind
of coastline would this be at
present?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Organic
Marine Depositional
Wave Erosional
Volcanic
Depositional
29. The longest of its
kind in the world, Padre
Island is the prime
example of a(n)
_________
A.
B.
C.
D.
Atoll
Barrier Island
Barrier Reef
Sea Stack
30. Here is the last Hawaiian Island
– ALL of it! Kure (pronounced Kor –
ee) is a prime example of a(n) …
A.
B.
C.
D.
Seamount
Fringing Reef
Barrier Island
Atoll
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
31-34. Identify the features in this
picture of Rocher Percé, Quebec.
Sea Arch
Sea Cave
Sea Stack
Headland
Island
31.
32.
33.
34.
Rocher Percé – a closer look
34.
31,
32.
33.