Surface water
Ground water
Stream development
Erosion
Ocean shoreline
100
Mississippi River
What is the largest basin in the United States
100
What is 14%
What percent of freshwater exists as groundwater
100
What is meander
What do we call a curve in a stream's channel that forms where the current is strongest
100
What is gully
What term means erosion hat can develop if a rill channel becomes broader and deeper
100
What is sand
What substance is made up of tiny particles of broken rock and seashells
200
What is runoff
What do we call water that doesn't soak into the ground or evaporate, but does not flow into a channel
200
What is water table
What terms refers to a place where groundwater reaches the surface
200
What is young streams
What type of stream will you find rapids and waterfalls
200
what is rill erosion
What type of erosion begins when a small stream forms during a heavy rain
200
what is longshore current
What carries many metric tons of loose sediments and acts like rivers of sand in the ocean
300
What is alluvial fan
What forms when a river's water empty from a mountain valley out onto a flat open plain
300
What is beaches
What are deposits of sediment that run parallel to the shore
300
What is old stream
What type of stream will you find broad, well-developed floodplains
300
what is sheet erosion
What type of erosion happens when rainwater carries sediment, but does not flow in a channel
300
What is beaches
What are deposits of sediment that run parallel to the shore?
400
what is a tree
What object do we compare to a river system
400
What is geyser
What is hot spring that erupts periodically, shooting water and stream into the air
400
what is drainage basin
What area of land or stream that collects runoff
400
what is channel
What happens when sheet erosion occurs when water erodes without
400
What is a tree
What object do we compare to a river system
500
what is increases
When people remove vegetation.what happens to runoff
500
What is mature stream
What term is defined as a broad, flat valley floor carved by a meandering stream
500
what is deposition
What happens to the sediment carried along by a river when the water slows down
500
What is rocks and seashells Fragments
what materials does sand from
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