All the land that drains into a river system's drainage basin is a _________________.
What is watershed.
100
Stream load can be ______ like ___ and ______ and non living like dissolved minerals and gasses.
What is living and plants and animals.
100
The pathway in the ground that carries the river.
What is stream channel.
100
The area near the river that is covered during a flood.
What is flood plain.
200
More of this allows more precipitation to soak into the ground.
What is vegetation
200
High land that separates one watershed from another.
What is watershed divide.
200
One way a stream carries its load is in _______________ like dissolved limestone.
What is solution.
200
The edge of a river.
What is a stream bank.
200
This can be natural or man made and can help keep a river from over running its banks.
What is a levee.
300
This type of soil allows more water to soak into the ground.
What is porous soil (sand, gravel)
300
The largest watershed n the continental U.S..
What is Mississippi River watershed.
300
One way a stream carries its load is in _________________ like small particles that settle out if the water slows down.
What is suspension.
300
A bend in the river.
What is a meander.
300
This type of flood control method does not take into account what happens downstream.
What is NIMBY
400
Steeper slopes cause ___________ runoff.
What is faster
400
This divides the Mississippi watershed from the Pacific watershed.
What is the continental divide.
400
Some materials in a river are too large to be carried in the water so they move along the bottom and are called ____________________.
What is bed load.
400
The water in a straight river flows fastest in the middle and on the ______________.
What is the surface.
400
The run away method of flood control requires that the river be allowed to flood and that people should stay back from the flood zone. Use of ___________________ allows this to happen.
What is a floodway.
500
A smaller stream that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary.
500
True of false, smaller watersheds can exist within larger watersheds.
What is true.
500
In general the ____________ size particles in a river travel the furthest.
What is smaller.
500
In a meander the water flows more slowly on the ________________ of the meander often forming _______________________ bars.
What is inside and point
500
A hydrograph contains a bar graph of ____________ and a line graph of ___________________.