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Water

Running Water & Ground Water shaping our Earth

TermDefinition
Water Cycle The unending circulation of Earth's water supply
Infiltration Movement of surface water into rock or soil through cracks and pores in the ground
Stream Channel The course the water in a stream follows
Gradient Slope or steepness of a stream channel
Discharge The volume of water flowing past a certain point in a given unit of time.
Tributary A stream that empties into another stream
Meanders A stream that has a course with many bends
Bed Load The solid materials like sediment too large to be carried in suspension in the stream's water that move along the bottom
Capacity of a stream The maximum load it can carry
Delta The accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or ocean and eventually forms a triangular shape
Natural Levee A ridge made up mostly of coarse sediments that runs parallel with some streams
Floodplain A flat valley during a flood the river overflows its banks and floods the plain
Flood The discharge of a stream becomes so great that it exceeds the capacity of its channel and overflows its banks
Drainage Basin The land area that contributes water to a stream
Divide The imaginary line that separates the drainage basin of one stream from another
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