Sediment
This causes rocks to form into sediment.
What is chemical and physical weathering?
These are distinct structures formed by bed sediment.
What are bedforms?
Discharge at which bankfull width and depth is reached.
What is bankfull discharge?
The two broad types of bars.
What is unit and compound?
These are the two driving variables in fluvial systems.
What are flow regime and sediment supply?
This causes the failure of a slope all at once.
What is mass wasting?
The ability of a given discharge to entrain a certain sized particle.
What is stream competence?
These are the four degrees of freedom for channel adjustment.
What is planform/slope/bed material/cross section?
These are the four main types of unit bars.
What are longitudinal, transverse, point, and diagonal bars?
Change can be external or internal factors, otherwise known as....
What are allogenic and autogenic?
Gravel streams are known for this kind of particle distribution.
What is bi-modal?
The process that lines up particles (or even cars) in the direction of flow
The steps in channel evolution.
What is channel incision, channel widening, and floodplain development?
These occur within the channel but before the floodplain.
What are channel benches?
A response depend on these three things.
These three things are different types of transport mechanisms in streams.
What is suspension, saltation, and traction?
These three things can be used to calculate shear stress.
What is flume, jet test measurements, and empirical equations?
These are consistent relationships that exist between channel form and discharge/drainage area.
What are regime equations/hydraulic geometry/regional curves?
An intermediate between braided and meandering rivers.
What are wandering rivers?
These are sources of historical data that can be used to understand system history.
What are historic records, aerial images, paleochannels, terraces, and sediment dating?
This is the amount of sediment leaving the watershed.
What is sediment yield?
Transport capacity will change with these changes.
What is reduction is discharge/reduction in channel slope/increased cross-sectional area/increased flow resistance?
This is used to decribe the relationship between sediment and water supply, and degradation and aggradation.
What is Lane's balance?
These can limit meander bend amplitude.
What are cut-off limits, valley confinement, geology, and obstructions?
Name three things that can happen in channelization.
What are straightening, channel widening, levees, dredging, snagging and clearing, bank protection, bed protection, and locks and dams?