Some concept or practice questions
1. Between an earthflow and a rockfall, which travels fastest?
2. What is the driving mechanism for all mass wasting events?
3. What is erosion?
4. What is mass wasting?
5. What are the four types of mass wasting events?
6. What types of faults are found within a slump?
7. Be able to label the various portions of a slump - headwall scarp, slide surface (convex upward), normal faults, earthflow, toe).
8. What is the angle of repose?
9. What are two classes of mass wasting?
10. What is solifluction?
11. What is creep, as applied to mass wasting?
12. Briefly describe the Gros Ventre landslide?  (Why did it happen?).
13. What are three factors that contribute to mass wasting events?
14. What are three ways to mitigate mass wasting?
15. Could poor engineering of structures, such as dams or roads, result in disasters?
16. What is base level?
17. List the various types of stream drainages.
18. What is stream capacity?
19. What is stream competency?
20. What are the three (3) methods in which a stream transport's material?  Explain each.
21. Be able to label and explain Hjulstorm's diagram.
22. What are a cut bank and point bar?
23. What are the four types of mass wasting events?
24. If you have a large leaky pool at the top of a steep slope that eventually fails, what are some of the reasons for the failure?
25. Be able to identify the cutbank, point bar, longitudinal bar, and thalweg in a river.
26. What is the fastest point in a stream called?
27. What are three ways that rivers can erode material?
28. What are the five (three major, two minor) ways that rivers carry material?
29. What is base level?
30. What are the four basic types of river drainages?  (Be able to diagram them)
31. Explain the basic age differences that can be seen in various rivers (be able to diagram them).
32. What are capacity and competence, when referring to a stream?
33. Be able to label various parts of a stream, tributaries, and drainage basin (watershed), delta, distributaries, etc.
34. Understand how discharge is a function of drainage basin area, velocity, stream volume, and precipitation.


Some of the Key Terms
Abrasion
Base level
Bed load
Capacity
Channelized stream
Competency
Cross-section view
Cut bank
Dendritic
Dissolution
Dissolved load
Drainage basin
Drainage divide
Hydraulic lifting
Mature age
Old age
Point bar
Radial
Rectangular
Saltation
Suspended load
Thalweg
Trellis
Watershed
Young age