Question | Answer |
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Erosion | The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transport soil and sediment from one location to another |
Water cycle | The continuations movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean |
Tributary | A stream the flows into a lake or into a larger stream |
Watershed | The area of land that is drained by a water system |
Divide | The boundary between drainage areas that have stream that flow in opposite system |
Channel | The path that a stream follows |
Load | The materials carried by a stream |
Deposition | The process in witch material is laid down |
Delta | A fan-shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream |
Alluvial fan | A fan-shaped mass of material deposited by a stream when the slope of the land decreases sharply |
Floodplain | An area along a river that flows from sediment deposits when the river overflow ita??s banks |
Water table | The upper surface of underground water and the upper boundary of the zone of saturation |
Aquifer | A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater |
Porosity | The percentage of the total volume of a rock or sediment that consists of open spaces |
Permeability | The ability of a rock or sediment to let fluids pass through its open spaces, or prose |
Fresh water