An Introduction to River Systems

Water as a medium; our traditional view of rivers is one-dimensional; rivers are actually four-dimensional; river processes occur across a range of scales; rivers can be viewed as corridors

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1. What % of world's water is in rivers?

  • 10%
  • 0.00008%
  • 0.002%
  • 0.0006%
  • 0.1%
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2. Why is water so special?

  • Transports matter in rivers
  • Transports material around plants and animals
  • Medium for chemical reactions
  • All of the above
  • Sustains life in, on and near rivers

3. At what temperature is water most dense?

  • 4degrees
  • 5degrees
  • 2degrees
  • 3degrees
  • 0degress

4. Which of these facts about water is NOT true?

  • It is highly acidic
  • It has a high latent heat of evaporation
  • It is moderately viscious
  • It buffers variations in temperature due to its high specific heat capacity
  • It has a high surface tension

5. Rivers (are) dynamic mosaic of spatial elements and ecological processes arrayed hierarchically

  • True
  • False

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