The Water Cycle
What is the title for section one?
The Water Cycle
What is the title of section 2?
Stream Erosion
What is the title of section three?
Stream Deposition
The part of the valley floor that may be covered with water during a flood is called a
floodplain
The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, and the oceans.
The Water Cycle
Name 2 processes of the water cycle.
Precipitation, condensation, evaporation, evapotranspiration, percolation, transpiration, runoff
When a stream becomes longer and wider, it is called a?
river
Where does a delta deposit its sediment?
large body of water
A stream or river that is composed of multiple channels that divide and rejoin around sediment bars.
braided stream
A process of removing salt from ocean water.
desalination
What are 2 ways to conserve water?
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What is stream erosion?
When the sides/banks of the stream are being washed away.
Where does an alluvial fan deposit its sediment?
land/base of slope
The volume of water moved by a stream in a given time period is the stream's
discharge
The change of state from a gas to a liquid.
condensation
True or False
The continuous cycle of evapotranspiration, condensation, and precipitation establishes Earth's water budget.
True
Name one part of a river system.
divides, channels, banks, beds
Name one thing humans build to control flooding.
dams, artificial runoff, floodways
A stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream
tributary
The total loss of water from an area, which equals the sum of the water lost by evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and the water lost by transpiration from organisms.
evapotranspiration
In the atmosphere, water occurs as an invisible gas. What is the invisible gas called?
water vapor
What are the 3 types of stream load?
suspended, bed, dissolved
The accumulation of these deposits along the banks eventually produces raised banks, called
natural levees
The area of land that is drained by a river system.
watershed
Any form of water that falls to Earth's surface from the clouds; includes rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
precipitation