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River & Earth parts
river and earth landforms and elements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| large natural stream of water that runs through land | river |
| place where a river or stream begins usally in the highlands | sorce |
| the sources of river waters | headwaters |
| small river or streamm that flows into a lager river or stream | tributary |
| flowing together of two or more rivers or streams | confluence |
| winding path or course of a river | meander |
| a bow shaped lake formed ina former channel of a river | ox-bow lake |
| direction opposite the flow of a river | upstream |
| direction in which a river or stream flows from its source to its mouth | downstream |
| a lowland area such as a marsh or swamp that is saturated with moisture | wetland |
| low plain next to ariver that is formed of river sediment and is subject to flooding | floodplain |
| an area where a tide meets a river current | estuary |
| alluvial deposit at ariver's mouth that looks like the greek letter delta | delta |
| place where a stream or river flows into a larger body of water | mouth |
| area of land drained by a river and its branches | river basin |
| the region or area drained by a river | watershed |
| stretch of highland that seperates direction of river systems | divide |
| a large waterfall | cataract |
| flood plain where flooding rivers deposit rich soil | alluvial plain |
| what are the four spheres of the earth | atmosphere,lithosphere,hydrosphere,biosphere |
| how much percent does the water cover on the earth | 70% |
| What are the steps to the water cycle | evaporation/evapotranspiration,condensation,precipitation,collection/infiltration/aquifer |
| what are the five oceans | southern,indian,atlantic,pacific,artic |
| what is the process called when you turn saltwater into drinking water | desalinazation |
| continental drift theory was proposed by who and what year | alfred wegener,1912 |
| 200 million years ago the earth was a giant continent called | pangea |
| what support did alfred use | continents shape match,plants and animal fossils matched,rocks matched |
| how does lava get to the ocean floor | sea floor spreading |
| what is earth's crust made up of | series of large and small moving plates |
| what are the two different types of divergent boundaries | oceanic crust,continental |
| what is the type of the convergent boundaries | subduction |
| subduction types are | continental and oceanic |
| what are the four exteranl forces of change | weathering,erosion,deposition,soil building |
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