Vocabulary
Water inside of plants is transferred from the plant to the atmosphere as water vapor
What is transpiration?
Water flows downhill within the soil.
What is a through flow?
when material is picked up by the river and moved downstream.
What is Transportation?
The point at which 2 rivers join.
What is a confluence?
Water flows downhill within the soil.
What is percolation?
involves the wearing away of rock. Rivers erode the riverbank and bed. Material carried by the river is broken down into small, rounder and smoother pieces.Erosion involves the wearing away of rock. Rivers erode the riverbank and bed. Material carried by the river is broken down into small, rounder and smoother pieces.
What is Erosion?
Erosion, Transportation, Deposition
What is are river processes?
the sum of all processes by which water moves from the land surface to the atmosphere via evaporation and transpiration.
What is evapotranspiration?
all water flowing downhill over the surface of land via spontaneously formed channels. These channels will reach a creek, stream, or river and eventually flow into a pond, lake, or ocean
What is surface runoff?
when the river drops what it is transporting. This is usually when the river loses energy.
What is Deposition?
occurs on the outside bend of a river. The river erodes the banks and migrates sideway. This carves out a wider and flatter valley floor.
What is lateral erosion?
The total length of all streams in the basin divided by the total area of the basin.
What are drainage density?
the process of interrupting the movement of water in the chain of transportation events leading to streams
What is an interception?
__________________ and _____________ are two types of wetlands.
What are swamps and marshes?