Question

Surface features that are created when water dissolves limestone, like sinkholes and disappearing streams, are parts of Group of answer choices a potentiometric surface. a geothermal landscape. a karst landscape. an artesian surface.

Answer 1

The correct answer is ''a karst landscape.''

Step-by-step explanation:

A karst landscape is due to the erosion of water in limestone, that is, it is the surface of the earth resulting from the action of water on soluble rocks, in a slow dissolution process that takes thousands and even millions of years –approximately 5 mm of advance in the rock every hundred years–. The phenomenon is common in limestone rocks. This type of relief originated from the dragging or accumulation of soluble and disintegrated materials, such as those made up of carbonates. Limestone rock can decompose with water, since it is soluble; this solubility increases with the presence of acids produced by the mixture of CO2 and water, or by organic acids from the microbial activity of the soil. In this way, the limestone rocks fragment and form holes that, over time, give rise to various types and sizes of holes or depressions on the surface.