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River ANAGRAMS
River Basics
Weathering & River Chapters Mix
Weathering landscapes
Geography Basics
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ISSMSPIISIP Biggest watershed in North America

What is the Mississippi River

100
processes that relate to rivers and streams
What is fluvial
100
Maximum possible velocity of a river occurs here
What is the outer portion of the meander curve
100
Frost wedging occurs because water does this
What is expands up to 9% greater volume when it freezes
100
studies places spaces and how people act upon them
What is geography
200
OZMAAN Has the greatest discharge of world rivers
What is The Amazon
200
the area of land from which all water in it drains into the same place
What is a watershed
200
The total possible transport load of a river
What is its capacity
200
When the upper surface of consolidated rock undergoes constant weathering, it creates broken-up rock called this
What is regolith
200
degrees of angle system to measure distance from the equator
What is latitude
300
ILEN Longest river in the world
What is the Nile
300
These small grooves can enlarge to form gullies
What are rills
300
As a stream’s velocity decreases, this will be deposited last, after gravel, sand, and silt.
What is clay
300
studies and analyzes the origin, evolution, form , and spatial distribution of landforms.
What is geomorphology
300
degree of angle system that measures East and West from the Prime Meridian
What is longitude
400
SIMIRSO The river Louis and Clark followed for much of their historic journey of adventure and discovery
What is the Missouri
400
A basin in which water never reaches the ocean has this type of drainage
What is internal
400
This rock type covers most of the Earth's surface
What is sedimentary
400
The process that breaks down rock at Earth’s surface through disintegration of rocks into mineral particles or dissolving it into water
What is weathering
400
The Prime Meridian runs through an astronomical observatory near this world class city
What is London
500

  catsonearm The longest river in the northern part of California's Central Valley

Sacramento

500
These streams are not connected to groundwater systems and only flow after precipitation events
What are ephemeral streams
500
This landscape pattern in characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves
What is karst
500
The three principle acting agents in the chemical weathering process
What water oxygen & carbon dioxide