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Geology 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where is erosioin concentrated along a meandering stream | on the outer parts of the meander loops or bends |
| is an abandoned, cutoff, meander loop | Oxbow lake |
| Make up the suspended loads of most rives and streams | Silt and clay-sized detrital grains |
| Describes the total setament load transported by a stream. | Capacity |
| A ____ stream pattern is developed only on growing mountains like volcanoes or where the land surface is tectonically doming upward | redial |
| What is the drop in water surface elevation divided by the distance the water flows? | Stream gradient |
| A ____ stream pattern developes on land underlain by tilted or folded, alternating hard and soft, sedimentary strata | trellis |
| Freatures characterized wide streams and valleys? | Natural levees; broad floodplains |
| ___are components of the hydorlogic cycle that relese water vapor directly to the atmosphere | Evaporation and transpiriation |