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Vocabulary for Chapter 9 By Tomi Ogundayo

Vocabulary for Chapter 9 By Tomi Ogundayo. Water Cycle. The water cycle is a continuous cycle where water evaporates, travels into the air and becomes part of a cloud, falls down to earth as rain, and then evaporates again. This repeats again and again in a never-ending cycle. . Runoff.

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Vocabulary for Chapter 9 By Tomi Ogundayo

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  1. Vocabulary for Chapter 9By TomiOgundayo

  2. Water Cycle • The water cycle is a continuous cycle where water evaporates, travels into the air and becomes part of a cloud, falls down to earth as rain, and then evaporates again. This repeats again and again in a never-ending cycle.

  3. Runoff • That part of the precipitation that appears in surface water bodies after traveling across land.

  4. Water Inflitration • The movement of water from the soil surface downwards into the soil profile.

  5. Stream System • The fundamental unit of study for fluvial processes is the drainage basin or watershed.

  6. Watersheds and Divides • A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place

  7. Pennsylvania Drainage Basins • is a part of the surface of the earth that is occupied by a drainage system, which consists of a surface stream or a body of impounded surface

  8. Stream Load– Suspension & Bed Load • The rock particles and dissolved ions carried by the stream

  9. Stream Carrying Capacity • How much the stream can carry before it gives way.

  10. Floodplain • Areas that are flooded periodically (usually annually) by the lateral overflow of rivers.

  11. Flood • A form of natural disaster when there is more water than the lakes, rivers, oceans, or ground can hold.

  12. Meander, Point Bar, Cut Bank, Oxbow, & Oxbow Lake • An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake water body formed when a wide meander from the mainstream of a river is cut off to create a lake.

  13. Delta • The fan-shaped area at the mouth or lower end of a river, formed by eroded material that has been carried downstream and dropped in quantities

  14. Eutrophication • The slow aging process during which a lake, estuary, or bay evolves into a bog or marsh and eventually disappears.

  15. Marsh • low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

  16. Swamp • is a wetland that is dominated by woody plants (shrubs and trees). Swamps are often near rivers or streams.

  17. Lake Formation and Evolution • How a lake forms and how it transforms into a bigger body of water.

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