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17 Cards in this Set
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Runoff |
As water moves overland, it carries particles within |
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Rills |
Runoffs forms tiny littles gulves in soil |
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Gully |
Large groove, channel in soil that carry runoff after rainstorm |
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Tributary |
Streams, rivers flows into a larger river |
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Streams |
Channel along water that flows down a slope (river) |
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Flood plain |
Flat, wide area of land along a river |
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Meander |
Loop like bend in the course of a river |
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Oxbow lakes |
Meander that has been cut off by the river |
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Waterfalls |
Occur where rivers meets areas that is hard and erodes slowly |
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Deltas |
Sediment deposited where river flows into the ocean/lake build up a landform |
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Alluvial Fan |
Why, sloping down deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range |
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Groundwater |
"Underground water" cause erosion through chemical weathering |
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Stalacite |
Deposit hangs like icicle from root of cave |
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Karst topography |
Type of landscape and rainy regions where there are limestone near surface
-caverns, sinkholes, and deep valleys |
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What are Landforms made by water erosion ? |
Valleys,waterfalls,floodplains,meanders, and oxbow lakes |
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Two landforms made by water deposisition |
Alluvial fans and deltas |
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How can groundwater cause erosion |
The process of chemical weathering because rainwater is naturllay acidic |
