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| Any channelized flow of water |
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| Churning/mixing/swirling water |
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| Source, begining of river |
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| as streams approach their mouths, gradient drops |
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| when the mouth joins the sea |
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| temporary/local base level |
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| when it enters a body of water before it goes into the sea |
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| materials found in soil dissolve |
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| what is carried in solution |
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| how fast the water is moving |
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| along the bottom of the streams channel |
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| speed at which particles fall through still liquids |
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| the max amount of solid particles a stream can transport |
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| measure of the max size of particles it is capable of transporting |
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| material settles out in areas of the river channel |
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| bars that build up and choke off the main channel |
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| areas underwater when flood waters overflow the primary channel |
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| high areas that form next to a river |
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| the section of a flood plain where deposits of fine silts and clay settle after a flood |
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| small rivers form that eventually enter the main channel |
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| when levees are high, the water flows back into the yazoo tributaries |
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| where a stream flows into a lake or ocean |
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| where a stream enters the sea |
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| material that settles out first |
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| clay mixed with marine organisms |
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| turns or bends in a river |
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| narrow area between meanders |
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| meandering streams become so sinuous that individual meanders get cut off |
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| where crustal upwarf was and collapsed |
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| dropping below sea level and filling with water |
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| magma seems and cools and forms new basaltic crust |
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| primary divergent plate boundary |
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| when the crust is building somewhere, it's being taken from somewhere else |
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| with so much pressure on one edge, it causes a fault |
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| lumpy globs between big thick areas and the lower mantel |
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| areas of weakness (very hot liquid comes through and melts the crust) |
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| area that is burned where the hot liquid comes out |
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| the plates move and the plume moves, and forms: (like hawaii) |
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| because the plate isn't moving very much |
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| why does africa have the most hot spots |
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| sea floor is primarily made up of: |
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| we rely on _____ to find the depth of the ocean |
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| part of the ocean that is transgressed |
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| where it drops off...like in the ocean where the sand drops down |
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| where the rock and sediments fall off and gather |
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| sediments that come from the land |
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| sediments with biological origins |
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| sediments that originate on the sea floor |
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| water cuts a groove in the rocks |
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| sediments that settle evenly end up being the flattest and leveled |
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| who sits on a subduction zone |
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| who sits on a convection cell |
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| how deep is the challenger deep |
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| what forms around a sea mount |
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| what happens to a completely weathered away island |
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| the water on the inside of an atoll |
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| an island that has weathered away completely and is now undersea |
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| a sediment on the sea floor that is a mixture of soil products. high in clay and decomposing calcareous organisms |
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| a sediment on the sea floor that is silicon shelled calcareous organisms |
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| what sediment covers the majority of the sea floor |
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| average depth of the ocean |
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| the deforming of existing sedimentary rock layers |
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| when the layers get shifted |
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| uplifted portion (bends up) |
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| geologic fault zone/ worlds deepest freshwater lake |
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| indian and eurasian plate collision |
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