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Water Erosion

Flora - Water Erosion & Deposition Vocabulary Study Guide Stack

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water beneath Earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers groundwater
a curve or winding crooked part of a stream channel meander
rockor soil with connecting pores that absorb or allow the passage of water permeable
areas in which the landscape is largely shaped by the dissolving action of water on carbonate bedrock forming caves, sinkholes and underground streams karst
a triangular sediment deposit at the mouth of a large river that empties into a large body of water such as a gulf or ocean delta
a temporary sand deposit roughly parallel to and separated from the mainland by shallow water barrier island
the underground area in which all rock pores are filled with water zone of saturation
region of land where water flows into a specified body of water such as a river, lake, sea or ocean watershed
a place where the water table is at the surface and water flows from the ground spring
a large underground opening that forms when limestone dissolves cave
a cone-shaped sediment deposit created by a river when it loses energy and slows down rapidly alluvial fan
an ocean current that runs parallel to the shoreline longshore current
water that runs along the surface until it reaches a body of water runoff
a large deposit of sand parallel to water beaches
a wide, flat valley carved by a meandering stream which is covered by water when the stream floods flood plain
a layer of permeable rocks through which groundwater moves and is stored aquifer
a boiling spring of groundwater that erupts periodically and is driven upward by the power of steam geyser
the top of the zone of saturation water table
rock or soil that allows little or no water to seep through impermeable
a water well from which water, under natural pressure, rises to the surface artesian well
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