Surface Water
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| watershed | holds water; area of land that contains a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single larger body of water
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| divide | operated one watershed from another
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| bed load | rolling and sliding in order to transport
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| suspended load | sediments suspended in order to transport; most common
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| dissolved laod | sediments dissolved and transported
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| Nile | world's largest river in terms of disharge
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| formula for disharge | width x depth x velocity
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| dendritic | branching streams
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| trellis | paralled
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| rectangular | rectangular
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| radial | diverge from center area
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| centripetal | towards the center of basin`
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| capacity | the amount of sediments a rive can carry; depends on discharge
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| competence | the size of sediment; depends of velocity
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| calculate graadient | vertical drop/ distance
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| erosion happens | outside of a meander; cut bank
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| deposition happens | inside o meander; point bar
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| alluvial fan | low gradient distribution channel; decrease velocity; deposits into sediments
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| delta | a deposit of clay, silt, and sand formed at the mouth of a river where the stream loses velocity and drops part of its sediment load into a continues flow of water
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| gradient | decreases
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| velocity | increases
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| channel roughness | decreases
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| discharge | increases
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| width and depth | increases
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