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Precipitation
Evaporation
Infiltration
Runoff |
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| What percentage of water is oceans? |
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Percentage of:
Glaciers
Groundwater:
Inland seas, lakes, soil, rivers |
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Glaciers: 2
Groundwater: .6
Others: .4 |
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| Branching pattern, uniform in resistance to erosion |
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| Volcano drainage patterns |
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| Joints or faulting pattern |
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| Alternating resistance and non resistent beds or folded sheets |
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Drainage pattern depends on:
RSHPV |
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Rock type
Structural features
Human activity
Precipitation
Vegitation cover |
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| Main continental divide in U.S. |
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| Topographic high that separates drainage basins |
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| The movement of surface water into rock or soil through cracks and pore spaces |
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| Land area that contributes water to a river system |
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| Splits the whole continent into enormous drainage basins |
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The volume of water flowing past a given area in the river over a period of time
Expressed in cubic ft/sec |
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Slope of stream channel
How is it calculated |
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Gradient
Change in elevation/distance traveled |
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| What does hydrograph show? |
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Rate of flow versus time past specific point in a river
How the height of water above reference has changed over time |
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| Where river water empties into another body of water; deltas form here |
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| The outside of a meandering river; a zone of active erosion; coarse sediment |
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| A crescent-shaped accumulation of sand and gravel deposited on the inside of a meandering river; finer sediment |
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| A curved lake produced when a stream cuts off a meandering river; formed when cut banks merge |
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| Stream deposited sediment |
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| Flat valley floor built by later erosion of river and floods, finer alluvium |
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| Parallel to the stream channel, built by successive floods, coarser alluvium |
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| Transport billions of tons of sediment and ions to the ocean each year; shape the surface of the earth |
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| Deposition into aqueous environment (mouth of river) |
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| Deposition onto dry terrain |
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| The proportional volume of empty space in rock, sand high, shale low |
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| Ability for materials to transmit fluids (water); clay-rich soils, shale, non-fractured igneous and metamorphic rocks have a low permeability |
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| All pores filled with water |
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| Pores above the water table |
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| Top of the saturated zone |
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| Body of porous earth material that can provide useful amounts of water: sand, gravel, and fractured rock |
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| Where the water table intersects land surface |
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Ground water heated by an igneous heat source that is found near the surface
Example and stress |
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Hot spring
Borrego Hot Spring |
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