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15 Cards in this Set
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Divide |
The Ridge of land that separates one drainage basin from another |
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Drainage |
The land area from which a river and it's tributaries collect their water |
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Slump |
Rock and soil suddenly slips down a slope suddenly fast |
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Runoff |
Remaining water that flows into earth's the surface |
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Mudflow |
A rapid downhill movement of a mixture of water Rock and soil |
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Sediment |
Earth materials disposed by erosion |
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Creep |
A very slow down movement of rock and soil very slow |
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Deposition |
Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations |
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Mass movement |
Any one of several processes be which gravity moves sediment downhill |
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Landslide |
The most destructive kind of mass movement |
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Rill |
A tiny groove in soil made by flowing water down hill |
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Gully |
A large channel is soil form |
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Stream |
A channel through which water is continually flowing downhill |
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Tributaries |
A stream that flows into a large stream |
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River |
A large stream |
