FOR THIS EXERCISE, YOU SHOULD PRINT THE QUESTION
SHEET, THE ANSWER SHEET, AND FIGURES ONE AND TWO. (THERE WILL BE EXTRA
COPIES OF THESE FIGURES IN THE LAB IN CASE YOU HAVE TROUBLE PRINTING THEM).
YOU WILL ALSO NEED YOUR TEXTBOOK.
Questions: 21 points
1. Using Chapter 16 in your textbook and Figure One , draw and label and describe the kinds of landscapes where you might find dendritic, trellis, radial, and annular drainage patterns. (8)
2. What is a meander scar? (1)
3. What is an oxbow lake? (1)
4. Figure Two
shows
a mature stream. Label the following features on the figure. (See Figures
15.20 and 15.11 in your textbook).
a meander scar, the floodplain,
point bar deposits, a cutbank, the place where the next oxbow is likely
to be cut off from the stream, the most recently formed oxbow lake, an
older oxbow lake, a meander neck, and a backswamp (9)
5. a. What purpose does a stream
serve in shaping a landscape? (1)
b. What purposes
do human structures such as dikes and levees serve? (1)