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Rivers
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- 1RIVERSGEOGRAPHY
- 2What is a Watershed?A Watershed is an imaginary line separating one drainage basin from the next
- 3What is a Source?A Source is the starting point of a River
- 4What is a Tributary?A Tributary is smaller rivers joined to the main one
- 5What is a ChannelA Channel is the main bath of the river
- 6What is the Mouth?The Mouth is where a river flows into a lake or ocean
- 7What is a ConfluenceThe Confluence is the point where two rivers join
- 8What is a Drainage BasinA Drainage Basin is an area of land drained by a river
- 9Rock that lets water pass through is...permeable
- 10Rock that will not let water through is...impermeable
- 11Water held in rock, underground is calledground water
- 12when water soaks through the groundinfiltration
- 13Rainwater that flows along the surface of the groundsurface runoff
- 14Rainwater that flows sideways through soil, above water tablethroughflow
- 15water falls when there's a drought becausethere is no rain to complete the rain cycle
- 16Why can a river fill up very quickly in very wet weatherThere is a lot of surface runoff
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- Humanities Flashcards on Rivers, created by Danielle DoVale on 03/05/2017.
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