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Precipitation that does not evaporate or infiltrate but runs over Earth’s surface into streams.
What is Runoff?
The seeping of water on Earth’s surface into soil or rocks.
What is Infiltration?
A channel on Earth’s surface that carries water at least part of the time.
What is a stream?
The land area that contributes water to a stream.
What is a Drainage Basin?
Process of turning liquid water into gas.
What is Evaporation?
A cone or fan-shaped deposit of sediments formed where a stream exits from a mountain range and flows into a low-gradient valley.
What is an Alluvial Fan?
Water in Earth’s crust that is in the zone of saturation meaning that most pore spaces are filled with water.
What is Groundwater?
A special type of hot spring that periodically shoots water into the air.
What is a Geyser?
A dripstone feature that frows up from a cave’s floor.
What is a Stalagmite?
Process of turning water vapor into liquid.
What is Condensation?
Any form of water, whether liquid or solid, that falls from the atmosphere and reaches Earth’s surface.
What is Precipitation?
A smaller stream that enters a larger stream.
What is a Tributary?
A temporary deposit of sediments within a stream channel.
What is a Bar? 🍫lol
The material a stream carries as dissolved substances.
What is a Dissolved Load?
Process of turning ice into a gas.
What is Sublimation?
The outer part of a stream’s meander loop.
What is a Cut Bank?
A bar formed by the deposition of sediments at the inner part of a meander loop.
What is a Point Bar?
An imaginary line separating one drainage basin from another.
What is a Divide?
The continuous circulation of Earth’s supply characterized by the movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, and continents.
What is the Hydrologic Cycle?
When clouds are too saturated they drop excess moisture.
What is Precipitation?
An abandoned meander loop of a stream, cut off from the mainstream channel filled with water.
What is an Oxbow Lake?
An icicle-like dripstone that hangs from a cave's roof.
What is a Stalactite?
A dripstone feature that grows up from a cave's floor.
What is a Stalagmite?
Occurring when a circular depression on Earth’s surface formed by the collapsing of a cave’s roof.
What is a sinkhole?
*Infiltration *Runoff. Where water is recycled back into the hydrosphere.
What is Collection?