Type of steams
Type of erosion
Groundwater
Permeable rocks
100
Tree
What is a object we compare to a river system
100
Gully
What is a term that erosion can develop if a rill channel becomes broader and deeper
100
Barrier islands
What is what are deposits of sediment that run parallel to the shore
100
Spring
What is formed when the water table meets the earths surface
200
Young
What is a type of stream will you find rapids and waterfalls
200
Sheet erosion
What is a type of erosion when rainwater carries sediment but does not flow in a channel
200
Meander
What is a curve in a steams channel that forms where the current is strongest
200
Cave
What is formed when carbonic acid dissolves the underground opening from rock
300
Old stream
What is a type of steam where you will find broad well developed floodplains
300
Alluvial fan
What is what forms when a rivers water empties from a mountain valley out onto a open floodplain
300
Groundwater
What is water underneath the earths surface
300
Longshore current
What is a current that acts like a river of sand in the ocean
400
Mississippi
What is the largest drainage basin in the United States
400
Rock and shell fragments
What is a material that sand forms
400
Aquifer
What is permeable rock layer filled with water
400
Geyser
What is a hot spring that erupts periodically
500
Delta
What is a triangular or fan shaped deposit of sediment that forms where a river empties into a ocean
500
Amount of rain,amount of vegetation, time, steepness of the slope
What is 4 things that affect the amount of runoff
500
Water table
What is the planar underground beneath the surface which earth materials as soil and rock
500
Permeable
What is rocks that have spaces that allow water to sink in and _ rocks
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