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chap. 11 & 12

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the hydrologic cycle   water evaporated from ocean , cooled water forms vapor and turns into clouds, circles earth and then turns to rain  
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runoff   precipitation falls too rapidly to be absorbed  
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overland flow   too much water to be absorbed into ground  
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sheet flow   flows in sheets down hill slopes, shallow  
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channelized flow   flow with path created by water movement  
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infiltration   process by which water on the ground enters the soil  
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types of infiltration   to soil water belt, to ground water  
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aquifer   permeable (water can move through) rock or sediment  
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perched water table   smaller water table sittig above main water table  
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aquiclude   impermeable rock or sediment  
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karst   dissolution of limestone  
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discharge   volume of water/unit time  
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stage   height of stream surface  
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stream gage   measures stage and discharge  
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stream velocity- friction   inc friction= dec velocity  
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stream velocity- slope   inc slope = inc velocity  
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stream velocity- area   dec area= inc velocity  
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drainage basin   total area occupied by drainage system  
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drainage divide   line following crest of upland seperating basins  
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hydrograph   plots discharge over time  
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base flow   peak water table  
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flood stage   height/stage above where river floods  
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resevoir   storage of water from water source  
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lakes and geologic time   only temporary  
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salty lake   landlocked with concentration of salts and other dissolved material higher than other lakes  
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fluvial geomorphology   how landscapes change over time, the study of landforms created by running water  
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denudation   lowering of landscape by water  
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erosional landform   process of natural break down of rocks  
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depositional landfom   formed by depositing of material  
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slope erosion - overland flow   removes sediment from slope  
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slope erosion- splash erosion   causes soil detachment and disinigration, erosional, soil bombarded wirh rain  
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sediment yield   quantity of sediment removed  
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dec vegitiation=   inc sediment yield  
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rill   small channels in hill slope carved by flowing water  
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master rill   water hooses rill and makes it larger over time  
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gully   steep walled canyon like trench  
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stream erosion- hydrolic action   force of flowing water removrd material  
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stream erosion- abrasion   rock particles carried by river  
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stram erossion- corrosion   chemical weathering dissolution  
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graded stream   carries just right amount of sediment that ot recieves  
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waterfall   eodes background over time  
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aggradation   elevation of strem bed is risiing  
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degedation   stream cutting down into sediments  
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entrenched meander   stream degrades into befrockq  
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point bar   depositional ladfor inside of meander  
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cut bank   erosional landform on outsife of meander bend  
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cut off   kocation on river where a meander was abandoned  
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oxbow lake   left behind after cutoff crescent shaped lake  
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natural levee   ridge of course sediments parrallels river on both sides  
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backswamp   flat section of finer sediments  
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terrace   former floodplain  
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eolian geomorphology   wind erodes naterials  
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wind abrasion   wind drives sand against surface  
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wind delfation   wind picks up loos particles  
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angle of response=   angle of stavility  
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alpine glacier   descending mountian valley formed among summits  
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glacier formation   accumulation of ice on land showing signs of past or present movement  
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cirque   bowl shaped depression at head of glacier  
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glacial trough   u shaped glacier valley evidence of former glaciers  
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hanging valley   u shaped trintary valley when glacier recedes its left hanging above  
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striations   series of ridges  
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zone of accumulation   area above firn lne where snow accumulates and exceeds losses froma ablation  
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zone of ablation   below firn line loss in ice mass due to melting  
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snowline   elevation above where snow melts  
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rigid zone   shallow  
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plastic zone   slower movement at bottom and along valley walls  
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arete   knife like ridge formed by enlargement of 2 troughs or cirques  
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horn   pyramidal peak formed by enlargement if 3 or more cirques  
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tarn   lake in cirque  
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col   low point in arete  
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till   unsorted unstratifies  
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moraine   main landform composed of tills ridges etc  
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fjord   long narrow inlet with steep sides or cliff createdd by glacial erosion  
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rouch moutenee   rock formation created by passing of glacier causing abrasion  
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ice marginal lake   lake located adjacent to glacier formed inn bedrock basin  
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outwash plain   formed from glacial sediments  
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kame   mound compased of sand gravel and til accumulates in retreating glaciers  
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kettle   shallow sediment filled body of water formed by retreating glaciers  
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esker   winding ridge of stratified land anfd gravel  
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drumlin   elongated hills in shape of inverted spoon formed by glacial ice  
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