Practice Quizzes

After completing the reading assignment and exploring the Web resources, study guide, and tutorial, review what you have learned with these quizzes:

 
Surface Water Multiple Choice Quiz
 

Quizzes, Tarbuck and Lutgens, Chapter 5, Key Concepts 2 and 3 and Chapter Test

Web Exploration
 
Current River Conditions
This is a good site for current river conditions from the California Department of Water Resources, Division of Flood Management.

Current Flood Information
The National Weather Service provides a map showing the current Significant River Flood Outlook in the United States.

 
Athena Rivers From Space
A good site to learn the human significance of great rivers as well as a source of great satellite images.
 
 

Locate Your Watershed
This EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) site gives you access to data about pollution in your watershed.
 
Map of U.S. Rivers
Use this map to learn the location of rivers and lakes in the United States.
 
About Rivers and Dams
Why do we build dams and what are their environmental impacts? The International Rivers Network explores the controversies concerning dams.
 
U.S. and Global Floods
More people die from floods than earthquakes and volcanoes combined.  Use the resources of Dartmouth College's Global Flood Archive to learn the impact of floods on communities throughout the world.

 
Online Hazard Maps
Find out the potential flood hazard of your own neighborhood at Project Impact, a joint initiative of ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).  Enter a location and select from several hazard types to determine the risk of disaster in your community.
 
 
 

Satellite Images of Fluvial Landforms (Stream-Eroded Landscapes)
Explore this NASA Geomorphology from Space Website to see images of major world rivers from space.  Commentary accompanying each image helps you learn about the significance of river valleys.
 
Where has it been raining?
Watch an animation of rainfall during the last six hours in the continental United States.

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