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chap. 11 & 12

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show water evaporated from ocean , cooled water forms vapor and turns into clouds, circles earth and then turns to rain  
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show precipitation falls too rapidly to be absorbed  
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overland flow   show
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show flows in sheets down hill slopes, shallow  
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show flow with path created by water movement  
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show process by which water on the ground enters the soil  
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types of infiltration   show
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aquifer   show
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perched water table   show
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show impermeable rock or sediment  
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show dissolution of limestone  
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discharge   show
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stage   show
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stream gage   show
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stream velocity- friction   show
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show inc slope = inc velocity  
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show dec area= inc velocity  
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show total area occupied by drainage system  
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drainage divide   show
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hydrograph   show
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show peak water table  
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show height/stage above where river floods  
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resevoir   show
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show only temporary  
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show landlocked with concentration of salts and other dissolved material higher than other lakes  
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fluvial geomorphology   show
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show lowering of landscape by water  
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erosional landform   show
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depositional landfom   show
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show removes sediment from slope  
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show causes soil detachment and disinigration, erosional, soil bombarded wirh rain  
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sediment yield   show
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show inc sediment yield  
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show small channels in hill slope carved by flowing water  
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master rill   show
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gully   show
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show force of flowing water removrd material  
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stream erosion- abrasion   show
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stram erossion- corrosion   show
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graded stream   show
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waterfall   show
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show elevation of strem bed is risiing  
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show stream cutting down into sediments  
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entrenched meander   show
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show depositional ladfor inside of meander  
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show erosional landform on outsife of meander bend  
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show kocation on river where a meander was abandoned  
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show left behind after cutoff crescent shaped lake  
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show ridge of course sediments parrallels river on both sides  
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backswamp   show
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show former floodplain  
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eolian geomorphology   show
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wind abrasion   show
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show wind picks up loos particles  
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angle of response=   show
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alpine glacier   show
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glacier formation   show
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cirque   show
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show u shaped glacier valley evidence of former glaciers  
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show u shaped trintary valley when glacier recedes its left hanging above  
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show series of ridges  
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show area above firn lne where snow accumulates and exceeds losses froma ablation  
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zone of ablation   show
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snowline   show
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show shallow  
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show slower movement at bottom and along valley walls  
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arete   show
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show pyramidal peak formed by enlargement if 3 or more cirques  
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tarn   show
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col   show
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show unsorted unstratifies  
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show main landform composed of tills ridges etc  
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fjord   show
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rouch moutenee   show
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ice marginal lake   show
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outwash plain   show
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show mound compased of sand gravel and til accumulates in retreating glaciers  
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kettle   show
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show winding ridge of stratified land anfd gravel  
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drumlin   show
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