Rivers, Floods and Management Key Terms Flash cards
Abrasion
Afforestation
Aquifer
Antecedent Rainfall
Attrition
Bankfull
Bedload
Braided stream
Capacity
Calibre
Catchment Area
Channel Enlargement
Channel Flow
Competence
Condensation
Corrasion
Corrosion
Cross sectional area
Dams
Defecit
Deltas
Deposition
Discharge
Dissolved load
Distributary
Drainage Basin
Dreding
Eddies
Evaporation
Field capacity
Evapotranspiration
Flocculation
Flood
Flood Abatement
Flood embankments
Flood interception schemes
Flood proofing
Flood relief channel
Flood walls
Flood plain
Frequency
Gorge
Graded profile
Groundwater storage
Groundwater flow
Hard engineering
Helicoidal flow
Hjulstroms Curve
Hydraulic action
Hydraulic radius
Hydrograph
Infiltration
Infiltration rate
Interception
Interception storage
Knick point
Lateral erosion
Levees
Lining the channel
Load
Magnitude
Meanders
Naturalisation
Overland flow
Peak rainfall
Percolation
Point bar
Potholes
Precipitation
Profile
Rapids
Realignment
Regime
Rejuvination
River cliff
River restoration
Roundness
Runoff
Saltation
Sinuosity
Sluice gates
Soft engineering
Soil moisture
Solution load
Stemflow
Stormflow
Strata
Surface storage
Surplus
Suspended load
Throughflow
Traction
Urbanisation
Velocity
Verticle erosion
Water budget
Washland restoration
Waterfalls
Watershed
Water table
Wetted perimeter
