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18 Cards in this Set
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Flood
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Discharge increases so much that theres is too much water to array within its baks. Water flows out of adjoining bank into floodplain
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Meteoric Water
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Long standing water, all from precipitation. Rain.
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Sheet Wash
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Thin film of water transports soil particles by rolling them along the ground (erosion)
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Channelization
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Make, form, Channels.
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Headward Erosion
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Steep profile causes high velocity movement therefore promotes downward cutting-->v-shape.
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Tributaries
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Stream that joins larger stream
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Trellis Stream Pattern
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bedrock exerts contro over streams-->channels align themselves parallel to fractures
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Dendritic Stream Pattern
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pattern that water establishes for itself in absence of other factors
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Radial Stream Pattern
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Water flows away from domes
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Rectangular stream pattern
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area where crust has parallel faults or repeated joints
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Drainage Basin
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Where water
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Watershed
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Total area feeding water to stream
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Drainage divide
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topographic highs , such as ridges, that forces water to drain in separate direction into different watersheds
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The great divide
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Separates the drainage basins of streams tat flow to the Atlantic and the Gulf of MExico those that flow to the Pacific
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Dissolved load
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Consists of ion that have entered water as a result of chemical weathering of rocks.
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suspended load
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particles suspended in water. The size of these particles depend on their density and velocity of the stream
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Bed load
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large particles that remain on the stream bed most of the time
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Saltation
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when sediments jump
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