FREE ASBOG Drainage Patterns/Stream Types Questions and Answers

Question 1

In areas where there are numerous flaws

Accepted Answer

Rectangular Drainage Pattern

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Parallel Drainage Pattern

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Centripetal Drainage Pattern

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Radial Drainage Pattern

Question 2

a drainage pattern that may form on uniform rock and has a shape matching the pattern created by tree branches or leaf veins

Accepted Answer

Dendritic Pattern

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Ephemeral Stream

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Trellis Pattern

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Radial

Question 3

"Mount in the center
The streams radiate from a central high point in a radial drainage system. Typically, volcanoes have excellent radial drainage. Domes and laccoliths are additional geological structures on which radial drainage frequently occurs. The drainage on these objects may display a variety of radial patterns."

Accepted Answer

Radial Drainage Pattern

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Parallel Drainage Pattern

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Trellis Drainage Pattern

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Centripetal Drainage Pattern

Question 4

a stream that only occasionally flows in the area during and after a time of rainfall

Accepted Answer

Ephemeral Stream

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Intermittent Stream

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Braided Stream

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Consequent Stream

Question 5

continuous flow of water

Accepted Answer

Perennial Stream

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Water Table

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Ephemeral Stream

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Aquifer

Question 6

"In general, tributary streams follow the slope of the surface by spreading out in a parallel-like pattern. Sometimes the presence of a significant fault cutting across a region of sharply folded bedrock is indicated by a parallel pattern.
shallow basin"

Accepted Answer

Parallel Drainage Pattern

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Trellis Drainage Pattern

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Straight Channels

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Radial Drainage Pattern

Question 7

"a region of land where surface water will eventually converge to one location
The greatest significant restriction on drainage patterns is topography."

Accepted Answer

Drainage Patterns

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Perennial Stream

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Vegetation

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Ephemeral Stream